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The senators said the AI-equipped cameras from Netradyne raise privacy and surveillance concerns.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said the tax is even more urgent during the Covid crisis, as the pandemic has exposed and accelerated America’s wealth gap.

As Congress works on getting new coronavirus relief to Americans, one group of senators is calling for continued financial relief through the economic recovery.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren told CNBC that buybacks are market manipulation made to inflate executive pay.

Democrats are shelving their plans for a $15 federal minimum wage for now. The current minimum, $7.25, isn’t a living wage for full-time workers in any state.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders and a slew of other Democrats proposed a 2% tax on wealth above $50 million and a 3% tax on wealth over $1 billion.

It’s looking like the federal minimum wage won’t be increased anytime soon — news that will hit women harder than men.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s latest wealth-tax proposal calls for an annual tax of 2%, or 2 cents, on every dollar of people’s wealth worth above $50 million.

U.S. stock futures dipped Tuesday after starting March with a broad rally. The S&P 500 had its best session since June.

Senate Democrats will abandon plans to help raise workers’ pay in Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan.

Top Democrats are drafting new plans that would penalize big corporations that pay their employees less than $15 an hour.

The fight for a $15 federal minimum wage hit a major roadblock Thursday when a Senate official said it shouldn’t be included in the latest stimulus package.

After causing an internet sensation last month, “Bernie’s Mittens” are back in the headlines, with Vermont’s attorney general aiming to stop what he described as deceptive sales of knock-off mittens. “I’m annoyed,” said Jen Ellis, the creator of the original mittens worn by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Sens. Michael Bennet and Tim Kaine are reintroducing a public health-care option plan as President Biden mulls how to handle the issue.

As Congress weighs new $1,400 stimulus checks, some lawmakers have called for more restrictions on who gets the money. However, big changes may not happen.

The House of Representatives has included raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour in its most recent version of the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package.

A House committee advanced a $15 per hour minimum wage, but Democrats aren’t sure if it will make it into their final coronavirus relief bill.

We’ve seen the iconic Bernie Sanders Inauguration Day pose everywhere, and now it’s on a local craft beer. Four Quarters Brewing in Vermont is releasing Bernie’s S’mitten Mittens, a warming Maple s’mores stout brewed with maple syrup, milk sugar, cocoa powder, chocolate chips, graham cracker and marshmallow. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Winooski Food...

The House of Representatives has included raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour in its most recent version of the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package.

Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would increase the budget deficit, the CBO says. How that could actually help Democrats pass the pay hike.