Senator Bernie Sanders: Wal-Mart Wages ‘Nowhere Near Enough’

IOWA CITY, Iowa–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2015 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after Wal-Mart announced that all of its workers in the United States would earn at least $9 an hour by April and $10 an hour by 2016:

“The Walton family which owns Wal-Mart is the wealthiest family in America and it is absurd that thousands of their low-wage workers are forced to use programs like food stamps, Medicaid and…