You can’t become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.
When the average Social Security benefit is $1328 a month, and more than one-third of our senior citizens rely on Social Security for Virtually all of their income, our job is to expand benefits, not cut them.
The right wing in this country is waging a war against women, and let me be very clear, it is not a war that we are going to allow them to win.
It would, I think, be hard for anyone to make the case that the United States is a just society or anything close to a just society. In America today, there is massive injustice in terms of income and wealth inequality. Injustice is rampant.
Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing and one-third of all seniors depend on Social Security for at least 90% of their income.
The United States must lead the world in reversing climate change. We can do that.
In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth – worse than at any time since the 1920s. This is an economy that must be changed in fundamental ways.
Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?
Big business is willing to destroy the planet for short-term profits.
At a time when our planet is warming due to climate change, the last thing our environment needs is more drilling. What we need is for Congress and the White House to move toward clean energy such as solar, wind and geothermal.
Here’s what income and wealth inequality is about. Last year, the top 25 hedge fund managers made more than 24 billion, enough to pay the salaries of 425,000 public school teachers. This level of inequality is neither moral or sustainable.
Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this level of inequality is unsustainable. We need an economy that works for all, not just the powerful.
When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America.
Social security is the most successful government program in our nation’s history. We are not going to cut social security! We are going to expand social security!
Today, over half of American workers have less than $10,000 in savings and have no idea how they will be able to retire with any shred of dignity.
For many, the American Dream has become a nightmare.
We have got to make sure that every qualified American in this country who wants to go to college can go to college – regardless of income.
Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.
Debating, doubting, or rejecting the basic scientific facts about climate change in the face of the overwhelming evidence and overwhelming scientific opinion will not change those facts.
I am on the Health Education Labor Committee. That committee wrote the Affordable Care Act. The idea I would dismantle health care in America while we’re waiting to pass a Medicare for all is just not accurate.