At the current $5. 15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time … - Bernie Sanders

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I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

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At the current $5. 15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

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A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

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The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.

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Finally, let understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.

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