Bernie Sanders Applauds Jeff Bezos for Amazon’s Minimum-Wage Hike
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had rare words of praise for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday morning, following the tech titan’s decision to increase the minimum wage for Amazon’s domestic workers to $15 per hour.
“Today I want to give credit where credit is due,” Sanders said in a brief news conference. “And I want to congratulate Mr. Bezos for doing exactly the right thing.”
The senator and former presidential candidate was not subtle about his criticism of Bezos and other large corporations, introducing a piece of legislation called the Stop BEZOS act last month alongside fellow progressive Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA).
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