Op-Eds

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders; Newsweek Everyone wants to live a long, happy, and productive life. If you’re working class in America, that’s tough to do. Last month, I asked Americans to share their stories about how financial stress is affecting their lives. The response was overwhelming, heartbreaking, and infuriating. Working people are dying years before they should. Stress kills. Put

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders; The Guardian What we are fighting for is not ‘utopian’ or unachievable. Trumpism can and must be defeated I will be doing town meetings in Omaha, Nebraska, this Friday night and Iowa City, Iowa, on Saturday morning. Further, in the coming weeks and months, I and other progressives will be holding grassroots events from coast to coast.

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Josh Hawley; Fox News Americans are drowning in a record-breaking $1.17 trillion in credit card debt In his “Divine Comedy,” Italian poet Dante Alighieri reserved a special place in the Seventh Circle of Hell for people who charged usurious interest rates. Seven hundred years later, “usury” doesn’t come up much in common parlance, but the problem

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders; The Guardian The simple truth is that Trump ignored almost every major issue facing this country’s working families in his first speech I was at the Trump inauguration on Monday, and needless to say, I disagree with almost everything he had to say. What really struck me, however, is not what he said, which was not surprising

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders; Common Dreams We need a progressive agenda that addresses the many crises that working families face and points us forward to a better life for all. Inauguration day is here, a day that many of us have dreaded. Our opposition to President Donald Trump is based not only on our profound disagreement with him on most of

It must never be cheaper for a corporation to hire a guest worker from overseas than an American worker. We are living in a moment with unprecedented income and wealth inequality. At a time when the richest people in our country have never had it so good, 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and inflation-adjusted income for the average American worker has been stagnant for 50 years. Why is that?