Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren demand answers from Amazon over employee surveillance allegations

By: Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News A coalition of Democratic senators sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, pressing the company for answers over allegations that it “unethically” tracks and monitors its employees to suppress efforts to form a union. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) implored Bezos to explain recent reports that

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Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders Urge Stimulus Bill Focus Over Amy Coney Barrett Hearings

By: Jacob Jarvis; Newsweek Several senators have suggested lawmakers should be focused on passing a stimulus bill as opposed to facilitating Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. These hearings into President Donald Trump‘s SCOTUS pick will begin Monday, amid a continued impasse over a further relief package to be enacted amid the COVID-19 crisis. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle

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Sanders: Vermont seniors can now get food assistance more easily

By: Vermont Business Magazine Beginning October 1, 2020, Vermont seniors applying for 3SquaresVT are able to use a simple application and benefit renewal process as part of the new 3SquaresVT IN A SNAP program. The easy to use application is available to individuals and households age 60 or older and persons with disabilities. “3SquaresVT IN A SNAP is an improvement to

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Bolivia’s Left Could Win an Upcoming Election. U.S. Democrats Don’t Want a Repeat of Last Year’s Crisis.

By:  Ishaan Tharoor The Washington Post A year after staging an election mired in controversy, Bolivia may be on the verge of doing it all over again. Following multiple postponements by the country’s caretaker regime, elections are slated for Oct. 18. Current polling shows a clear lead for Socialist presidential candidate Luis Arce over centrist former president Carlos Mesa and

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