Bernie Sanders advocates higher minimum wage, free college tuition at campus press conference
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Sunday, June 5, 2016

“We (can) pay for every proposal that we have brought forth — rebuilding our infrastructure, making public universities tuition-free and expanding and extending social security,” Sanders said at the press conference. “We are going to transform America, and we are going to address the real issues facing working families.”

Sanders began his statements with a vehement condemnation of the federal minimum wage of just over $7 per hour, calling it a “starving wage.” He then moved into a discussion of the overarching economic trend of the past three decades, which he said has seen the rich become richer as the working class struggles to make ends meet.

“My Republican colleagues are always very concerned about the redistribution of wealth,” Sanders said at the conference. “But the truth is that there has already been a redistribution of wealth, just in the wrong direction — from middle-class Americans to the top one percent.”

“I’m going to do every damn thing that I can to make sure that Congress starts representing the interests of working families rather than wealthy campaign contributors,” Sanders said.