Sen. Bernie Sanders drew standing ovations as he laid out a jobs agenda in speeches on Tuesday at union halls in Nevada and Texas. He drew cheers from hundreds of people who packed into a Culinary Workers meeting room for a mid-morning speech in Las Vegas and he was welcomed by a Texas-sized crowd on Tuesday evening at an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local headquarters in Austin.

Sanders called for a $1 trillion investment in rebuilding crumbling roads and bridges to support 13 million jobs. He called the $7.25 an hour federal minimum wage a “starvation wage” and said it should be raised eventually to $15 an hour. He advocated pay equity for women workers. He said the U.S. Labor Department must update overtime rules so millions more workers would earn time-and-a-half if they clock more than 40 hours a week. And he denounced the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership that, like earlier trade pacts, would throw Americans out of jobs that would be shifted to low-wage nations overseas.

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