Op-Eds

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?

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders; Manchester Journal There has been a lot of discussion lately about the H-1B guest worker program. Elon Musk and a number of other billionaire tech company owners have argued that this federal program is vital to our economy because of the scarcity of highly skilled American engineers and other tech workers. I disagree. The main function of

We are the wealthiest nation on Earth. There is no rational reason as to why we are not the healthiest nation on Earth