Why New Jersey Needs Bernie Sanders

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http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/06/02/why-new-jersey-needs-bernie-sanders

Free Tuition at Public Universities: Since 2008, the average tuition at a public, four-year college in New Jersey has increased by 17 percent. Tuition for New Jersey residents at Rutgers-New Brunswick, our state university, is about $14,000 a year.

But many countries, including Germany, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, offer free college to all of their citizens. Free tuition was not always such a foreign concept (pun intended) in our country. The University of California offered free tuition until the 1980s and in the 1960s many colleges were free, including the City College of New York.

Healthcare as a Human Right: Thankfully more people have access to healthcare due to Obamacare. But 29 million people are still uninsured and many Americans with insurance struggle to afford their copayments and medications, or go without needed mental health or dental car

Dignity for Workers: In July 2015 Senator Sanders introduced a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020 which would increase the wages of about half of African-Americans and close to 60 percent of Latinos. Ensuring that every worker makes a living wage has been a core tenet of his presidential platform.