バーニー・サンダースさんのインスタグラム写真 - (バーニー・サンダースInstagram)「How it started // How it's going I have worked to raise the minimum wage from almost my first day in Congress. In 1993, I introduced a bill that would have raised the minimum wage to $5.50 an hour. At the time, it was kind of a radical idea. That bill only had a couple dozen co-sponsors and there was only one other person in the entire House of Representatives who had introduced similar legislation. Nearly thirty years later, some politicians still say raising the minimum wage to a living wage, $15 an hour, is “too radical.” But what is truly radical is the fact that the wealthiest country in the history of the world allows 40 million of its people to live in poverty while 40% of its people can’t afford basic needs. What is radical is the fact that millions of people work 40 hours a week and at the end of the week they are worse off than when they began. What is radical is that we have millions of people who are forced to work two or three jobs just to put food on the table and a roof over their heads. Let me assure you, Congress would pass a $15 minimum wage faster than you could imagine if they were forced to live on $7.25 an hour. Now is the time for action for the working people of this country. Now is the time for Democrats to deliver on the promises made to the American people.」2月7日 4時01分