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Hourly Wages Dollar General: $8 Kroger: $10 Walmart: $11 CVS: $11 Home Depot: $11 Lowe's: $12 2020 Profits Dollar General: $1.4 billion Kroger: $2 billion Walmart: $15.6 billion CVS: $6.2 billion Home Depot: $10 billion Lowe's: $4.9 billion U.S. workers need $15/hr and a union.

Per capita health care spending: Norway: $6,647 United States: $11,072 Number of uninsured/under-insured: Norway: 0 United States: 92 million COVID-19 deaths: Norway (population 5.3 million): 306 Louisiana (population 4.6 million): 6,260 Yes. It is time for Medicare for All.https://twitter.com/Its_Lira/status/1329431292732170240 …

Income and wealth inequality is soaring. Today, 1 in 4 U.S. workers are either unemployed or earn a poverty wage of less than $20,000 a year. Meanwhile, the 50 richest Americans own more wealth than the bottom 50%. We have got to create an economy that works for all, not the 1%.

Do not forget: A Green New Deal not only helps us lead the world in combating climate change, but will create millions of good jobs in energy efficiency, sustainable energies like wind and solar, transportation and agriculture. For the sake of future generations, let's do it.

The American people can't afford to wait any longer. Every working class American needs $2,000 a month. Every unemployed American needs $600 a week. Every American needs healthcare as a human right. No one in America should go hungry or homeless. The do-nothing Senate must act.

Wealth of Jeff Bezos in 2009: $6.8 billion Wealth of Jeff Bezos in 2020: $184 billion Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg in 2009: $2 billion Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg in 2020: $103 billion U.S. Minimum Wage from 2009-2020: $7.25 We need an economy that works for all of us, not the 1%.

During the pandemic, 647 billionaires in America have become nearly $1 trillion richer and now own twice as much wealth as the bottom 50%, while 40 million Americans face eviction. A society cannot sustain itself when so few have so much while so many have so little. #TaxTheRich

Corporate greed is out of control. While Jeff Bezos became $78 billion richer during the pandemic, Amazon has paid ZERO in federal income taxes over the last 3 years and continues to deny hazard pay and paid sick leave to its workers. This must change.

While the owner of Tyson Foods became $600 million richer during the pandemic, 11,000 of his workers got COVID-19 because they were forced back to work in unsafe and unhealthy plants as managers placed bets on how many would get sick. We must end this disgusting corporate greed.

The Walton family is worth $238 billion. Yet they pay wages so low, 14,541 of their workers in 9 states are forced to rely on food stamps to feed their families. Outrageous. I say to the Walton family: Get off welfare. Pay your workers a living wage—at least $15 an hour.https://twitter.com/washpostbiz/status/1329185396891201537 …

These giant corporations pay starvation wages—wages so low their workers have to rely on Medicaid and food stamps to survive: Walmart McDonald’s Dollar Tree Uber Burger King FedEx Wendy's This is what a rigged economy is about. We need a $15 living wage and Medicare for All.https://twitter.com/emrosenberg/status/1329185690605608960 …

Cost of public college tuition: Germany: $0 France: $0 Sweden: $0 Norway: $0 Finland: $0 Brazil: $0 United States: $10,486 In the richest country in the world, yes, we must make public colleges and trade schools tuition-free and cancel all student debt.

We must end U.S. support for the unauthorized, unconstitutional, and disastrous Saudi-led war in Yemen. The suffering people there do not need more bombs. They need more jobs, food and health care.

Today, we say to the prison industrial complex: Yes. We're going to enact real criminal justice reform. And we start by ending private prisons and private detention centers. No more profiteering from locking people up.

We won't have a moral or sustainable economy when so few have so much and so many have so little. It's unacceptable that the 50 richest people in the U.S. own more wealth than the bottom half—160 million. In the richest country on Earth let's create an economy that works for all.

If you paid $14 a month for the Netflix standard plan, you paid more than Netflix paid in federal income taxes a year after Trump's tax plan became law - while making an $845 million profit and giving its CEO a $302 million compensation package. End oligarchy. #TaxTheRich