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• Make college affordable and provide affordable childcare to restore America’s competitive edge compared to other nations.

• Break up big banks. The six larg-est banks now have assets equiva-lent to 61 percent of our gross domestic product, over $9.8 trillion. They underwrite more than half the mortgages in the country and issue more than two-thirds of all credit cards.• Join the rest of the industrial-ized world with a Medicare-for-all healthcare system that provides better care at less cost.

• Expand Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and nutrition programs.

• Reform the tax code based on wage earners’ ability to pay and eliminate loop-holes that let profitable corporations stash profits overseas and pay no US federal income taxes.

• Invest in our crumbling infrastructure with a major program to create jobs by rebuilding roads, bridges, water systems, waste water plants, airports, railroads and schools.

• Transform energy systems away from fossil fuels to create jobs while beginning to reverse global warming and make the planet habitable for future generations.

• Develop new economic models to support work-ers in the United States instead of giving tax breaks to corporations which ship jobs to low-wage coun-tries overseas.

• Make it easier for workers to join unions and bargain for higher wages and benefits.

• Raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour so no one who works forty hours a week will live in poverty.

• Provide equal pay for women workers who now make 78 percent of what male counterparts make.

• Reform trade policies that have shuttered more than 60,000 factories and cost more than 4.9 mil-lion decent-paying manufacturing jobs.

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Bernie Sanders: Strongest On Equality"Bernie Sanders has been a steadfast and reliable supporter of LGBT equality, supporting the Employment Non-Discrimination Act...and even calling on President Obama to evolve already and support marriage equality in 2011. He's a cosponsor of the federal LGBT-inclusive Student Non-Discrimination Act and has consistently voted against bills seeking to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, while cosponsoring a bill that would repeal the remaining portions of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act. Sanders has a perfect score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign's latest Congressional Equality Index." --www.Advocate.com

Bernie is pro equality for all--straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning--and as president will defend us all.

An Economic Plan That Works For AllInvest In Our Crumbling infrastructure, Break Up The Big Banks, Provide Healthcare For All, Expand Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and nutrition programs, Provide Free State College, Transform energy systems to sustainable green, Support Workers, Not Billionaires, Secure Equal Pay For Women, Raise the Minimum Wage, Reform Trade Policies To Support US Workers, Insure Corps. And Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share

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Bernie Sanders: Strongest On Equality"Bernie Sanders has been a steadfast and reliable supporter of LGBT equality, supporting the Employment Non-Discrimination Act...and even calling on President Obama to evolve already and support marriage equality in 2011. He's a cosponsor of the federal LGBT-inclusive Student Non-Discrimination Act and has consistently voted against bills seeking to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, while cosponsoring a bill that would repeal the remaining portions of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act. Sanders has a perfect score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign's latest Congressional Equality Index." --www.Advocate.com

Bernie is pro equality for all--straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning--and as president will defend us all.

An Economic Plan That Works For AllInvest In Our Crumbling infrastructure, Break Up The Big Banks, Provide Healthcare For All, Expand Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and nutrition programs, Provide Free State College, Transform energy systems to sustainable green, Support Workers, Not Billionaires, Secure Equal Pay For Women, Raise the Minimum Wage, Reform Trade Policies To Support US Workers, Insure Corps. And Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share

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Born in Brooklyn, New York, he attended James Madison High School, Brooklyn College, and the University of Chicago. After graduating, he moved to Vermont where he worked as a carpenter and documentary filmmaker. In 1981, he was elected as mayor of

of the most exciting and livable small cities in America. Under his administration, the city made major strides in affordable housing,

rights, youth programs and the arts. In Congress, Bernie has fought tirelessly for working families, focusing on the shrinking middle class and growing gap between the rich and ever

the House of Representatives for passing more amendments than any other member of Congress. As chairman of the Senate Committee

Committee. Bernie lives in Burlington, Vermont with his wife Jane. He has four children and seven grandchildren.

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Bernie Sanders is a Democratic candidate for President of the United States. In 2006, he was elected to the U.S. Senate after 16 years as

Representatives. Bernie is now serving his second term in the U.S. Senate after winning re-‐‑election in 2012 with 71 percent of the vote. Follow Bernie Sanders Campaign at his Official Website

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Sanders detailed a 12-‐‑point economic program to: * Invest in our crumbling infrastructure with a major program to create jobs by rebuilding roads, bridges, water systems, waste water plants, airports, railroads and schools.

* Transform energy systems away from fossil fuels to create jobs while beginning to reverse global warming and make the planet habitable for future generations.

* Develop new economic models to support workers in the United States instead of giving tax breaks to corporations which ship jobs to low-‐‑wage countries overseas.

* Make it easier for workers to join unions and bargain for higher wages and benefits.

* Raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour so no one who works 40 hours a week will live in poverty.

* Provide equal pay for women workers who now make 78 percent of what male counterparts make.

* Reform trade policies that have shuttered more than 60,000 factories and cost more than 4.9 million decent-‐‑paying manufacturing jobs.

* Make college affordable and provide affordable child care to restore to other nations.

* Break up big banks. The six largest banks now have assets equivalent to 61 percent of our gross domestic product, over $9.8 trillion. They underwrite more than half the mortgages in the country and issue more than two-‐‑thirds of all credit cards.

* Join the rest of the industrialized world with a Medicare-‐‑for-‐‑all health care system that provides better care at less cost.

* Expand Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and nutrition programs.

loopholes that let profitable corporations stash profits overseas and pay no U.S. federal income taxes.

Bernie Sanders Says "There is a lot of sentiment that enough is enough, that we need fundamental changes, that the establishment whether it is the economic establishment, the political establishment or the media establishment is failing the American people,"

war."

"There is far too little discussion in Washington about the collapse of the middle class, almost no discussion at all about the incredible income inequality and wealth inequality in this country, and the fact that we're moving toward an oligarch form of society."

"A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it."

"Balancing the budget on the backs of the elderly, the sick, the children and the poor is not only immoral, it is bad economic policy. It is something that must be vigorously opposed."

"You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress."

"Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break."

"The billionaire class now owns the economy and they are working day and night to make certain that they own the United States government."

makes no sense that students and their parents are forced to pay interest rates for higher education loans that are much higher than they pay for car loans or housin

One day we must ask the question, Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I m simply saying that more and more, we ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life s market place. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. It means that questions must be raised. You see, my friends, when you deal with this, you begin to ask the question, Who owns the oil? You begin to ask the question, Who owns the iron ore? You begin to ask the question, Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two thirds water? These are questions that must be asked. Martin Luther King, Jr. Created by James Long and Brought to you by The People For Bernie Sanders www.peopleforbernie.com This material is not authorized by the candidate.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, he attended James Madison High School, Brooklyn College, and the University of Chicago. After graduating, he moved to Vermont where he worked as a carpenter and documentary filmmaker. In 1981, he was elected as mayor of Burlington, the state s largest city, by a mere 10 votes. As mayor, Bernie s leadership helped transform Burlington into one of the most exciting and livable small cities in America. Under his administration, the city made major strides in affordable housing, progressive taxation, environmental protection, child care, women s rights, youth programs and the arts. In Congress, Bernie has fought tirelessly for working families, focusing on the shrinking middle class and growing gap between the rich and everyone else. Bernie has been called a practical and successful legislator and he was dubbed the amendment king in the House of Representatives

for passing more amendments than any other member of Congress. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, Bernie worked across the aisle to bridge Washington s toxic partisan divide and cut one of the most significant deals in years. In 2015, Democratic leadership tapped Bernie to serve as the caucus ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee. Bernie lives in Burlington, Vermont with his wife Jane. He has four children and seven grandchildren.

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CIVIL RIGHTS

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Civil Rights Activist In Chicago, Sanders threw himself into activism civil rights, economic justice, volunteering, organizing. I received more of an education off campus than I did in the classroom, Sanders says. By his 23rd birthday, Sanders had worked for a meatpackers union, marched for civil rights in Washington D.C., joined the university socialists and been arrested at a civil rights demonstration. He delivered jeremiads to young crowds. The police called him an outside agitator, Sanders said. He was a sloppy student, and the dean asked him to take a year off. He inspired his classmates. He knows how to talk to people now, said Robin Kaufman, a student who knew Sanders in 1960s Chicago, and he knew how to do it then. He was a radical before it was cool. http://time.com/3896500/bernie-sanders-vermont-campaign-radical/#3896500/bernie-sanders-vermont-campaign-radical/

The Fight is Not Over In 1965, against racist legalized violence,

incredibly brave men and women put their lives on the line to demand that all Americans, regardless of their color, have the right to vote. And they won. When people stand together for justice, nothing is impossible, The Charleston church killings are a tragic

reminder of the ugly stain of racism that still taints our nation. This senseless violence fills me with outrage, disgust and a deep, deep sadness. The hateful killing of nine people praying inside a church is a horrific reminder that, while we have made significant progress in advancing civil rights in this country, we are far from eradicating racism. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and their congregation.

Investing in Our Communities The struggle for equality continues today in

America, and the front line of that struggle is the inner cities throughout our nation. From Ferguson to Baltimore and across the nation, too many African Americans and other minorities find themselves subjected to a system that treats citizens who have not committed crimes like criminals.

If current trends continue, 1 in 3 black males born today can expect to spend time in prison during their lifetime. This is an unspeakable tragedy. But this crisis of over incarceration is not just a destruction of human life. It is also costly to the taxpayers who pay almost $70 Billion a year for prisons. It makes a lot more sense to me to be investing in jobs and job training than to be building more and more jails and to be locking up more and more people. This issue is a crisis in American society. It is an international disgrace. That is why I have submitted legislation to spend $5.5 billion dollars to fund job-training programs for inner city youth. As a former Mayor I understand the importance of police community relations, and the need today across America to improve the climate and dialogue in those relations. Instead of building more and more prisons, we need to be building more and more meaningful lives where young people can have a future, not be stuck in a dead end with no hope or opportunity. Rated 97% by the NAACP, indicating a pro-affirmative-action stance.

Rated 93% by the ACLU, indicating a pro-civil rights voting record.

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having. Ronald Reagan

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation. John F. Kennedy

Knowledge that is, education in its true sense is our best protection against unreasoning prejudice and panic-making fear, whether engendered by special interest, illiberal minorities, or panic-stricken leaders. Franklin D. Roosevelt

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EDUCATION


Crushing Student Debt The numbers are staggering: more than $1.2 trillion in outstanding student loan debt, 40 million borrowers, an average balance of $29,000.

It's not hard to find indications that student debt is a large (and growing) problem. But unless you or someone you love holds student loans, it can be hard to feel the problem's immediacy.

That may not be the case for long. Mounting student loan debt is ricocheting through the United States, now affecting institutions and economic patterns that have been at the core of America's very might.

Men and women laboring under student debt "are postponing marriage, childbearing and home purchases, and...pretty evidently limiting the percentage of young people who start a business or try to do something entrepreneurial," said Mitch Daniels, president of Purdue University and the former Republican governor of Indiana. "Every citizen and taxpayer should be concerned about it."

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Where should our priorities lie?

"If the federal government were to invest $18 billion a year, with a dollar-for-dollar match from state governments, we would slash college tuition in the United States by more than half. Many of my colleagues in Washington would look at that number $18 billion a year and tell you that we can t afford

to make that kind of investment in our nations young people. To put it simply, they are wrong. In the budget proposal President Obama released two weeks ago, he requested $561 billion for the Department of Defense $38 billion over budget caps that are currently in place. If we were to reduce the President s proposed increase in military spending by less than half, and instead invest that money in educational opportunities for today s college students, we could cut tuition by 55%. So I challenge all of you ask yourselves, where should our priorities lie?" Bernie Sanders

Investing in Our Future In my view, the most revolting aspect of the student loan crisis is that every year, the federal government makes billions of dollars in profits off of student loans $127 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. We must end the practice of the government making billions in profits from student loans taken out by low and moderate income families. That is extremely regressive public policy. It also makes no sense that students and their parents are forced to pay interest rates for higher education loans that are much higher than they pay for car loans or housing mortgages. We must restructure our student loan programs to take the profits out of our system, and return them to borrowers in the form of loan forgiveness and lower interest rates.

We once led the world in the percentage of our people with a college degree, now we are in 12th place. Countries like Germany, Denmark, Sweden and many more are providing free or inexpensive higher education for their young people. They understand how important it is to be investing in their youth. We should be doing the same,

We live in a highly competitive global economy. If our economy is to be strong, we need the best educated work force in the world. That will not happen if every year hundreds of thousands of bright young people cannot afford to go to college and if millions more leave school deeply in debt,

Under Bernie Sanders proposal, $70 billion a year in assistance two-thirds from the federal government and one-third from states would replace what public colleges and universities now charge in tuition and fees. The federal share of the cost would be offset by imposing a tax on Wall Street transactions by investment houses, hedge funds and other speculators.

I applaud the president for vetoing the Keystone pipeline bill. This veto tells the world that our nation takes seriously the planetary crisis of global warming and that we will not support legislation that would let a Canadian oil company ship some of the dirtiest oil on the planet across the United States.

Climate change is real, it is caused by human activity and it is already causing devastating problems. Our job now is to aggressively transform our energy system away from fossil fuels into energy efficiency and sustainable energy. I urge my Senate colleagues to sustain the president s veto.

The scientific community across the world is sounding the alarm. Climate change is real and it will have devastating consequences around the globe unless we act boldly and decisively,

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ENVIRONMENT


The Science Is In!!! Many Republicans now respond to the crisis of

climate change by saying they are not scientists and therefore have no opinion. Well, most of them are not doctors but they respect doctors opinions on

cancer and heart disease. Most of them are not generals but they respect the opinions of our military leaders. It s time for them to respect the views

of the scientific community on climate change.

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Calling Out Monsanto People want to know the quality of the food

they re eating and what they re giving to their kids is good quality. We just don t know all that much about genetically modified food. So my amendment was a pretty conservative amendment. It said in states like Vermont and Connecticut and other states where legislatures are voting for labeling on food products that have GMO product, let them go forward. Monsanto and the other companies saying states can t do it. It is a federal prerogative. My amendment said if California, Vermont, Connecticut, other states want to go forward, they should have the right. What we know is that all over Europe. We ve got dozens and dozens of countries which do label GMO products. We should be able to do that in the United States as well.Bernie Sanders

Consistent on Conservation Signed the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act Requiring labeling genetically engineered food. Co-sponsored a bill that would lower the cost of solar power and put the United States on track to install 10 million solar systems on homes and businesses by 2020. Sanders co-sponsored prohibiting commercial logging on Federal public lands Voted against Keystone XL pipeline Voted YES on increasing AMTRAK funding by adding $214M to $900M. Voted NO on prohibiting eminent domain for use as parks or grazing land. Voted YES on protecting ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems. Bernie Sanders has a 95% lifetime rating by the League of conservation voters Rated 100% by HSLF, indicating a pro-animal welfare voting record.

Can Bernie Sanders really win or will he just be another Ralph Nader? Bernie has been making remarkable gains in the first 2 primary states, Iowa and New Hampshire, and is now considered by many to be a real contender. In Iowa, according to started at 4% at the beginning of march before his Official announcement. He has doubled that number every month since and is generating excitement not often seen this early in the primary season. In April his numbers jumped up to 8%, followed by 15% in May, and 33% in June. He also has managed to raise 15 million dollars in the first quarter, which is huge considering he has no big donors. 400,000 donations were made with an average amount of $33.51. These are regular people, many making their first EVER political contribution, donating their hard earned money to support one of the rarest of all

. "I am more than aware that my opponents will be able to outspend us," Sanders said in Wisconsin. "They may have the money but we have the people. And when the people stand together, we can win." Another important point to make is that although Bernie has been an Independent his whole career, he is now running as a Democrat because

are millions of people out there who feel that Democrats have not been strong enough in standing up for the working class,

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o extreme to be elected? He has made income inequality a central theme, and he wants to revamp the tax system so that the wealthy pay a larger share. Check and check: Gallup reports that 63 percent call wealth distribution unfair, and 52 percent favor heavier taxes on the rich.

He is scathing about how big money has corrupted politics, and 61 percent of agree that Citizens United should be overturned. That includes 71 percent of Republicans who want to limit campaign contributions.

He wants to reduce student debt, at a time when 79 percent believe that education is no longer affordable for everyone, and 82 percent support creating low-cost loans for education.

He believes government should be proactive to reverse global warming, which is consistent with 71 percent of Americans, while 48 percent of Republicans say they are more likely to vote for a candidate who fights climate change.

He also endorses a $15 federal minimum wage and believes that Wall Street banks should be shrunk, two concepts that poll very well.

Even the term "socialism" doesn't poll like it used to, because younger voters believe Sanders is espousing a broader social rights agenda. The 18-to-29 bloc even finds socialism (36 percent) almost as favorable as capitalism (39 percent) r perhaps they just know that socialist precepts, in large part, represent the civic and cultural foundation of our nation. http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/06/like_it_or_not_sanders_socialism_is_mainstream_edi.html

which children are not living in poverty, in which kids can go to college, in which seniors have health care. Will I succeed? I can't guarantee you that. But I can tell you that from a human point of view, it is

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Is Bernie Sanders Really a Socialist? Bernie Sanders is a DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST, which basically means he thinks the PEOPLE of the country should DEMOCRATICALLY decide how to make our economy work best to benefit everyone in our SOCIETY. Democratic socialists do not believe that the whole economy should be centrally planned. Central planning can shape major social investments like mass transit, housing, schools, healthcare and energy, but capitalism and the free market are still the basis for the majority of industries. As Americans we have already been regulating industry for a very long time. American socialism can be credited for Public schools, Interstate Highways, Fire Department, Police Department, small business subsidies, public parks, the EPA, PBS, Medicare, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, garbage pick-‐‑up, Sewer systems. The Center for Disease Control, street lights, Customs and Border Protection, The Military, shall I go on? We the People should decide where we want the vast wealth of this country to go. Do we want it to continue to produce situations where ONE FAMILY can own the same amount of wealth as the bottom 42% in this country (while paying starvation wages) or do we want to go back to the economic policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy when unions and the middle class were strong and government worked for the people? Our voices and votes are THE ONLY THINGS that can change this modern corporate political system that all too often hurts the lower and middles classes so that they can continue helping those that already have benefitted the most from our country and collecting campaign funds in return.

"Ninety-‐‑nine percent of all new income generated today goes to the top 1 percent. The top one-‐‑tenth of 1 percent owns as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. Does anybody think this is the

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Bernie Sanders echoes FDR s idea of A Fair Day's Pay for a Fair Day's Work

American taxpayers should not have to subsidize the low wages at Wal-Mart to make the store s owners, already the richest family in America, even richer.

Anyone who works 40 hours in a week in America should not be in poverty, that s the simple reality.

At a time when almost all new income is going to the top 1%, it is time that working people, lower income workers get a raise, and we have got to do that.






Bernie Sanders for President Bernie Sanders is a Democratic candidate for President of the United States. In 2006, he was elected to the U.S. Senate after 16 years as Vermont s sole congressman in the House of Representatives. Bernie is now serving his second term in the U.S. Senate after winning re-election in 2012 with 71 percent of the vote.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. Franklin D. Roosevelt

INCOME INEQUALITY


Producing More, but Making Less The hourly compensation of a typical worker grew in line with productivity from 1948 until around 1980. After that we can see that productivity grew strongly while the typical worker s compensation was relatively stagnant. What this gap between pay and productivity means is that many workers are not benefitting from their increased productivity. The economy can afford higher wages but is not giving them willingly. Bernie Sanders says Enough is enough, American workers deserve a decent wage. All of you know what s going on in America today and that is the middle class is disappearing. We have millions of working people living in poverty and 99 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

Income Inequality Rising "What we're seeing right now is that for 40 years, the American middle class has been disappearing. Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages despite a huge increase in technology and productivity, and what we have seen during that period is a massive transfer of trillions of dollars from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent of America massive wealth and income inequality, where you have 99 percent of all new income today going to the top 1 percent." Bernie Sanders This chart from an economist at the Levy Economic Institute at Bard College shows how much income gains those at the top have enjoyed during each of our post-war expansions.

Economic Agenda Invest in our crumbling infrastructure with a major

program to create jobs by rebuilding roads, bridges, water systems, waste water plants, airports, railroads and schools.

Transform energy systems away from fossil fuels to create jobs while beginning to reverse global warming and make the planet habitable for future generations.

Develop new economic models to support workers in the United States instead of giving tax breaks to corporations which ship jobs to low-wage countries overseas.

Make it easier for workers to join unions and bargain for higher wages and benefits.

Raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour so no one who works 40 hours a week will live in poverty.

Provide equal pay for women workers who now make 78 percent of what male counterparts make.

Reform trade policies that have shuttered more than 60,000 factories and cost more than 4.9 million decent-paying manufacturing jobs.

Make college affordable and provide affordable child care to restore America s competitive edge compared to other nations

Break up big banks. The six largest banks now have assets equivalent to 61 percent of our gross domestic product, over $9.8 trillion. They underwrite more than half the mortgages in the country and issue more than two-thirds of all credit cards.

Join the rest of the industrialized world with a Medicare-for-all health care system that provides better care at less cost.

Expand Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and nutrition programs.

Reform the tax code based on wage earners ability to pay and eliminate loopholes that let profitable corporations stash profits overseas and pay no U.S. federal income taxes.

It takes no compromise to give people their rights it takes no

money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people

freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

-- Harvey Milk

This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It

was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished

when the rights of one man are threatened.

-- John F. Kennedy

It doesn t make much sense, but today in America, millions of our fellow citizens wake up and go to work with the awareness that they

could lose their job, not because of anything they do or fail to do, but

because of who they are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender. And that s

wrong. -- Barack Obama







LGBTQ Equal Rights


Right from the Beginning We ve got to end LGBT discrimination in

the workplace. Vermont did this 22 years ago when it passed one of the first state laws in the country protecting lesbian and gay workers. Congress should have acted long ago, but Republicans have blocked action. The House won t even allow a vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that the Senate passed last year. That s why the executive order that President Obama is singing on Monday is an important step in the right direction.

Vermont was a pioneer in enacting laws giving gay couples legal recognition, beginning with a history-making statute in 2000 permitting civil unions and the nations first marriage law passed without a court order in 2009. Gay marriage is now legal in 36 states.

Walks the Talk Voted NO on Constitutionally defining

marriage as one-man-one-woman. (Jul 2006)

Voted NO on Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage. (Sep 2004)

Voted NO on banning gay adoptions in DC. (Jul 1999)

Constitutional Amendment for equal rights by gender. (Mar 2001)

ENDA: prohibit employment discrimination for gays. (Jun 2009)

Rated 93% by the ACLU, indicating a pro-civil rights voting record. (Dec 2002)

Rated 100% by the HRC, indicating a pro-gay-rights stance. (Dec 2006)

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Advocate All Along In 2013 when the Supreme Court ruled that a 1996 law denying federal benefits to same-sex married couples is unconstitutional Sen. Bernie Sanders stated This is good news for all Americans who believe in the words carved in marble on the front of the Supreme Court building, equal justice under law. But it is a special victory for gays and lesbians married in Vermont and the increasing number of other states that followed our lead in granting same-sex couples the same rights as everyone else, Sanders said. Sanders, in 1996, was one of only 67 House members who voted against the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, a law that was passed by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton, which denied federal benefits to gay spouses. He has co-sponsored Senate legislation to repeal the law and he joined other members of Congress in a friend-of-the-court brief urging justices to void the discriminatory statute.

"We can never insure one-hundred percent of the population against one-hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life. But we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age. This law, too, represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built, but is by no means complete.... It is...a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness." --Franklin D. Roosevelt, August 14, 1935

"The Social Security program plays an important part in providing for families, children, and older persons in times of stress. But it cannot remain static. Changes in our population, in our working habits, and in our standard of living require constant revision." --John F. Kennedy, June 30, 1961

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." ---Dwight D. Eisenhower Created by James Long and Brought to you by The People For Bernie Sanders www.peopleforbernie.com This material is not authorized by the candidate.






PROTECT OUR SENIORS


Seniors Depend on SS Bernie Sanders says At a time when more than half of the American people have less than $10,000 in savings, it would be a disaster to cut Social Security benefits by raising the retirement age. It is unacceptable to ask construction workers, truck drivers, nurses and other working-class Americans to work until they are 68 to 70 years old before qualifying for full Social Security benefits.

When the average Social Security benefit is just $1,328 a month, and more than one-third of our senior citizens rely on Social Security for virtually all of their income, our job must be to expand benefits, not cut them. The way to do that is to eliminate the cap on all income above $250,000 so that millionaires and billionaires pay the same percentage of their income into Social Security as middle-class Americans. I have introduced legislation to do just that.

Respect Our Elders There are those in Washington who want to balance

the budget on the backs of the elderly, veterans, children, the sick and the poor. At a time when corporate loop-holes enable many large corporations to pay nothing in federal taxes, and the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider, there are fairer ways to do deficit reduction than cutting programs for some of the most vulnerable people in our country.

It is beyond my understanding why the Democratic Party has not focused on the needs of seniors much more than they have and you better believe I plan to, Social Security is the most successful government

program in our nation's history. Through good times and bad, Social Security has paid out every benefit owed to every eligible American. The most effective way to strengthen Social Security for the future is to eliminate the cap on the payroll tax on all income above $250,000 so millionaires and billionaires pay the same share as everyone else.

Sanders scores 100% by the Alliance for Retired Americans on senior issues

Bernie Sanders Leads the Fight for Senior Citizens

Wants to lower costs for prescription drugs by bringing greater transparency and competition to the health care system He introduced legislation to create a medical innovation prize fund that would restructure the system of financing research and development of new medicines and dramatically reduce their prices by rewarding only truly innovative products that provide new therapeutic benefits. It would also reduce wasteful spending on research, development and marketing.

Bernie Sanders is leading an effort to call for a significant increase in funds to support expanded access to meals, transportation, family caregiver support and other programs for seniors funded by the Older Americans Act. Sanders wants a 12 percent increase in support for senior programs and he s leading a group advocating for the much-needed investment in this program. Sanders writes The demand for these programs is great and in many areas of the country vulnerable seniors are on waiting lists for services that they desperately need,

Bernie Sanders Social Security proposal would make the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share. Under current law, the amount of income subject to the payroll tax is capped at $118,500 That means someone making millions of dollars a year pays the same amount in payroll taxes as some making $118,500 a year. The legislation would subject all income over $250,000 to the payroll tax. Doing so would impact only the top 1.5 percent of wage earners, the Center for Economic Policy Research has estimated.

At a time when over half of the American people have less than $10,000 in savings and senior poverty is increasing, we should not be talking about cutting Social Security benefits. We should be talking about expanding benefits to make sure that every American can retire with dignity

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If you can't afford to take care of your veterans, then don't go to war. These people are bearing the brunt of what war is about. We have a moral obligation to support them.

"It is no secret that many of our soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are forced to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries. We're all in this together, and we've got to stand not only with the soldiers in combat, but with their kids and their wives and their husbands."

"These men and women answered the national call to service. We have a responsibility to help them make their transition from active-duty to civilian status as smooth and seamless as possible. Specifically, we need to reach into our local communities to make sure all available resources federal, state and local are there to meet the needs of these military service members and their families." Created by James Long and Brought to you by The People For Bernie Sanders www.peopleforbernie.com This material is not authorized by the candidate.






VETERANS


We Owe Our Veterans "We owe our veterans in Vermont and across the United States the care they were promised and the benefits that they have earned in service to our country. While we have a long way to go in fulfilling those promises, I am proud, as Chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, that we have made real progress in addressing our obligations to our veterans,"

We, as a nation, have a moral obligation to provide the best quality care possible to those who have put their lives on the line to defend us, and Sen. Sanders is determined to ensure VA is meeting this responsibility. In response to the crisis at the VA Medical Center in Phoenix, Sen. Sanders led the effort to pass legislation to right the wrongs of the existing crisis, while making additional improvements to the VA health care system.

Helping Veterans Land Jobs The Post 9/11 GI Bill is the largest investment in veterans' education since World War II. It covers the full cost of an undergraduate education at any public university or college in the country for our nation's newest generation of veterans. It provides substantial funding for education at many private colleges, as well. "I am extremely proud of the Post 9/11 GI Bill and what it can do for veterans and their families," Bernie said. "Colleges and universities are seeing a big boost in the number of veterans seeking degrees. Trade and technical schools are seeing a new influx of veterans, as well."

Support Our Troops At a time when too many veterans have not accessed any services and are sleeping on the streets, in cars, and on couches, VA has engaged with communities across this country to end homelessness among veterans. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, homelessness among veterans has declined 33 percent since 2010. In Vermont, Sen. Sanders praised the construction and improvement of several facilities, including the Canal Street Veterans Housing in Winooski, the VeteransPlace in Northfield, the Dodge House in Rutland, the Veterans Inc. Transitional Housing in Bradford, and Home At Last in Brattleboro. These nonprofit programs help veterans and their families in their time of need. Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, has introduced the most comprehensive legislation for veterans to come before the Senate in decades. Sanders' bill would improve VA health care and dental care, expand educational opportunities, and help the VA address a disability claims backlog and help veterans find jobs.

"At a time when women make an average of 77 cents for every dollar earned by men, I am disappointed that every Republican in the Senate voted to filibuster the paycheck fairness act to insure equal pay for equal work I am proud that Vermont has been a leader in the fight for paycheck fairness and hope we can be an example for the rest of the nation. This is a struggle that has gone on for decades. We have made some progress, but today's vote is another reminder that we have a long way to go."

We are not going back to the days of wide-scale domestic violence, even if 31 Republican men in the Senate recently voted against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act because it expanded coverage to the gay community and Native Americans. We are not going back to the days when it was legal for women to be paid less for doing the same work as men, even if the governor of Wisconsin recently signed a bill to repeal that state's pay-equity law.

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WOMEN S RIGHTS


Equal Pay for Equal Work It boggles the mind that in this day and age, the average woman still only makes 78 cents for every dollar the average man makes. Vermont has one of the smallest wage gaps in the nation, but the gap still exists and amazingly, both in Vermont and nationwide, the gap exists at every level of education and at every stage of a career. Sen. Sanders was a strong supporter of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which amended the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to ensure that a woman who has suffered discriminatory pay can sue any time she gets a new paycheck. He has also consistently cosponsored and voted for the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would require employers to prove that pay discrepancies are based on qualifications, not gender.

Family Values Matter At a time when tens of millions of women use birth

control, there is no valid reason to restrict a woman s access to safe, widely-used preventive services simply because her employer does not approve of what should be her private medical decisions. This ruling undermines the government s interest in providing women access to preventive health care, including contraceptive coverage, Sen. Sanders strongly believes a woman s healthcare decisions should be between a woman and her doctor, not a woman and her employer. Birth control, like any other routine preventive medication, should be covered by insurance and coverage should not be dictated by an employer s personal or religious beliefs. Sen. Sanders and 18 fellow Senators urged the Supreme Court not to undermine Congress intent to provide women with access to preventive health care in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. Additionally, Sanders called for 12 weeks of paid leave if an employee has a child, is diagnosed with cancer or any other serious medical condition. Simply stated it is an outrage that millions of women in this country give birth and then are forced back to work because they don t have the income to stay home with their newborn babies.Sanders co-sponsored the Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act, a bill by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.).

Consistent Advocate Protect the reproductive rights of women. (Jan 1993)

Rated 100% by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record. (Dec 2003)

Emergency contraception for rape victims at all hospitals. (Sep 2006)

Provide emergency contraception at military facilities. (Apr 2007)

Ensure access to and funding for contraception. (Feb 2007)

Focus on preventing pregnancy, plus emergency contraception. (Jan 2009)

Ban discriminatory compensation;; allow 2 years to sue. (Jan 2009)

Stronger enforcement against gender-based pay discrimination. (Jan 2009)

Require pharmacies to fulfill contraceptive prescriptions. (Jul 2011)

Ban anti-abortion limitations on abortion services. (Nov 2013)

Endorsed as "preferred" by The Feminist Majority indicating pro-women's rights. (Aug 2012)

Enforce against wage discrimination based on gender. (Jan 2013)

Voted YES on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. (Feb 2013) http://www.ontheissues.org/house/Bernie_Sanders.htm

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• Facilitar a los trabajadores para que se unan a un sindicato y puedan negociar salarios más altos y mejores beneficios.• Aumentar el salario mínimo federal de $7.25 por hora para que nadie que trabaja cuarenta horas por semana viva en la pobreza.

• Invertir en nuestrainfraestructura que se deteriora con un programa para crear trabajos a través de reconstrucción de carreteras, puentes, sistemas de agua, plantas de agua residual, aeropuertos, ferrocarriles y escuelas.

• Transformar sistemas de energía aparte de los combustibles fósiles para crear trabajos, y al mismo tiempo comenzar a revertir el calentamiento global y hacer que el planeta sea habitablpa-ra las futuras generaciones.

• Desarrollar nuevos modelos económicos para apoyar a los trabajadores en los Estados Unidos en lugar de dar exenciones de impuestos a las em-presas que envían los trabajos a países extranjeros donde los trabajadores reciben salarios bajos.

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• Proveer igualdad de salario para las mujeres trabajadoras que hoy ganan 78 % de lo que gana la contraparte masculina.

• Reforma de la política comercial que ha cer-rado más de 60,000 fábricas y causado la pérdida de más de 4.9 millones de empleos bien pagados.

• Hacer que la universidad sea más accesible y proveer servicios de guardería económico para restaurar la competitividad de los Estados Unidos en comparación con otras naciones.

• Disolver grandes bancos. Los seis bancos más grandes ahora tienen activos equivalentes al 61% de nuestro producto interno bruto, más de $9.8 billones. Financian más de la mitad de las hipo-tecas en el país y emiten más de dos tercios de todas las tarjetas de crédito.

• Unirse al resto del mundo industrializado con un Sistema de Salud “Medicare-para-todos” para proveer mejor atención a menos costo.

• Expandir Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid y programas de nutrición.

• Reformar el código tributario (impuestos) basado en la capacidad de los asalariados para pagar y eliminar las evasiones de impuestos que permiten a las corporaciones lucrativas tener ganancias escondidas en el extranjero y no pagar impuestos sobre la Renta Federal.



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• Raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour so no one who works forty hours a week will live in poverty.

• Provide equal pay for women workers who now make 78 percent of what male counterparts make.

• Invest in our crumbling infrastructure with a ma-jor program to create jobs by rebuilding roads, bridg-es, water systems, waste water plants, airports, railroads and schools.

• Transform energy systems away from fossil fuels to create jobs while beginning to reverse global warming and make the planet habitable for future generations.

• Develop new economic models to support workers in the United States instead of giving tax breaks to corporations which ship jobs to low-wage countries overseas.

• Make it easier for workers to join unions and bargain for higher wages and benefits.

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• Reform trade policies that have shuttered more than 60,000 factories and cost more than 4.9 million decent-paying manufacturing jobs.

• Make college affordable and provide affordable childcare to restore America’s competitive edge compared to other nations.

• Break up big banks. The six largest banks now have assets equivalent to 61 percent of our gross domestic product, over $9.8 trillion. They underwrite more than half the mortgages in the country and issue more than two-thirds of all credit cards.

• Join the rest of the industrialized world with a Medicare-for-all healthcare system that provides better care at less cost.

• Expand Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and nutrition programs.

• Reform the tax code based on wage earn-ers’ ability to pay and eliminate loopholes that let profitable corporations stash profits overseas and pay no US federal income taxes.



• Facilitar a los trabajadores para que se unan a un sindicato y puedan negociar salarios más altos y mejores beneficios.• Aumentar el salario mínimo federal de $7.25 por hora para que nadie que trabaja cuarenta horas por semana viva en la pobreza.

• Invertir en nuestrainfraestructura que se deteriora con un programa para crear trabajos a través de reconstrucción de carreteras, puentes, sistemas de agua, plantas de agua residual, aeropuertos, ferrocarriles y escuelas.

• Transformar sistemas de energía aparte de los combustibles fósiles para crear trabajos, y al mismo tiempo comenzar a revertir el calentamiento global y hacer que el planeta sea habitablpa-ra las futuras generaciones.

• Desarrollar nuevos modelos económicos para apoyar a los trabajadores en los Estados Unidos en lugar de dar exenciones de impuestos a las em-presas que envían los trabajos a países extranjeros donde los trabajadores reciben salarios bajos.

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• Proveer igualdad de salario para las mujeres trabajadoras que hoy ganan 78 % de lo que gana la contraparte masculina.

• Reforma de la política comercial que ha cer-rado más de 60,000 fábricas y causado la pérdida de más de 4.9 millones de empleos bien pagados.

• Hacer que la universidad sea más accesible y proveer servicios de guardería económico para restaurar la competitividad de los Estados Unidos en comparación con otras naciones.

• Disolver grandes bancos. Los seis bancos más grandes ahora tienen activos equivalentes al 61% de nuestro producto interno bruto, más de $9.8 billones. Financian más de la mitad de las hipo-tecas en el país y emiten más de dos tercios de todas las tarjetas de crédito.

• Unirse al resto del mundo industrializado con un Sistema de Salud “Medicare-para-todos” para proveer mejor atención a menos costo.

• Expandir Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid y programas de nutrición.

• Reformar el código tributario (impuestos) basado en la capacidad de los asalariados para pagar y eliminar las evasiones de impuestos que permiten a las corporaciones lucrativas tener ganancias escondidas en el extranjero y no pagar impuestos sobre la Renta Federal.



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