Bernie Sanders

What Can We Learn from Denmark? May 17, 2013 The Danish people rank among the happiest in the world and “enjoy a quality of life that many Americans would envy” with universal health care, inexpensive prescription drugs, strong family-leave laws and free higher ed …Read Full Story

Rich are Getting Richer Share This May 2, 2013 “A few people on the top have incredible wealth and incredible power while the people at the bottom have neither,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said. “On economic issues, we are losing ground.” He was talking about a new study that showed the wealthy got wealthier after the recession while the vast majority of Americans saw their net worth shrink. To read more about the study, click here. The average wealth of the 8 million households in America with a...Read Full Story

Senator Bernie Sanders on The Power of Wall StreetListen to this segmentROUGH TRANSCRIPT:HARTMANN: It is Brunch with Bernie. Senator Sanders welcome to the program. A lot going on in the Senate?SANDERS: We will introduce, or rather, re-introduce legislation to break up the largest banks in this country. Thom it is my view that we’re never going to see the middle class in this country expand, we’re never going to see poverty go down, unless we deal …Read morehttp://uprisingradio.org/home/2013...Read Full Story

NOTE: PLEASE  HELP SUPPORT SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS ON THE FIGHT IN CAPITAL HILL BY FOLLOWING HIM AT @SENSANDERS ON @TWITTER AND ALL HIS OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA. THANK YOU. https://www.facebook.com/senatorsanders, https://plus.google.com/+BernieSanders, http://www.youtube.com/senatorsanders PLEASE FOLLOW THE LINK’S! THEIR THERE FOR A PURPOSE! February 28th, 2013 Vermont Services Newsroom Issues About Bernie Contact Menu Newsroom Video/Audio Events Photo Galleries Robin Hood Tax to Reduce Wall...Read Full Story

Bill Moyers Essay: Fighting Disclosure, Killing Democracy July 19, 2012 In this web-exclusive video essay, Bill Moyers addresses the failure of the DISCLOSE Act, and calls out politicians who fight tooth and nail to hide the truth about the wealthy few who purchase and corrupt American democracy... TRANSCRIPT Our politics took a nightmarish turn this week. Senate Republicans twice blocked a vote to require corporations, unions, and obscure organizations hovering in the shadows to tell us who...Read Full Story