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By: Sharon Zhang; truthout Because of inflation, fighting for a $15 an hour minimum wage is no longer enough, Sanders said. In his new role as the chair of the powerful Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is calling for the minimum wage to be raised for the first time in nearly 14 years, saying

By: Peter Sullivan; Axios Sen. Bernie Sanders has long made no secret that he thinks drug companies and health insurers are ripping off Americans. But now he’s chairman of the Senate health committee. Why it matters: Sanders has signaled an early focus of the committee’s work will be drug prices, and manufacturers are bracing for some contentious hearings. “I have no

By: Jake Johnson; Common Dreams “If Democrats really believe in democracy and campaign finance reform, we must ban super PACs in primaries,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday voiced support for a renewed progressive push at the Democratic National Committee to ban dark money donations in the party’s primaries, an effort that comes months after the DNC

By: WCAX News Team; WCAX Sen. Bernie Sanders outlined the economic disparities between wealthy and working-class Americans in a speech on Tuesday night, warning of the dangers of what he calls an emerging oligarchy. Vermont’s senior senator is the incoming chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. In Tuesday’s speech at the U.S. Capitol, he stressed the importance

By: Rachel Roubein; The Washington Post Sen. Sanders wants to move “very aggressively” on the high cost of prescription drugs   You might not have guessed this: As Sen. Bernie Sanders takes the gavel of the chamber’s prestigious health panel, a hearing on Medicare-for-all isn’t at the top of his list. The independent firebrand has long championed a far-reaching proposal to

By: Cheyenne Haslett; ABC News While insurance will cover the shots, premiums could rise, the senator warned. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the incoming chair of the committee focused on health, on Tuesday called out Moderna for looking at a more-than-quadruple spike of its COVID-19 vaccine prices. “How many of these Americans will die from COVID-19 as a result of limited access