December 23, 2024

Part One:
Morgan True, health and politics reporter at vtdigger.org
It may be next door but VT is another planet politically, economically and socially..Vermont, home of candidate Bernie Sanders is in the middle of a political upheaval…Gov. Shumlin has announced 18 months before the election he is not running for another term. Who is running? How is the economy doing and what about that single payer plan…is it dead?

Gov. Peter Shumlin says he will not seek re-election

Part Two:
Elise Gould, senior economist at EPI the report can be found here: The Agenda to Raise America’s Pay | Economic Policy Institute http://www.epi.org/pay-agenda/#.VXZL_wG7fO0.twitter

Raising America’s Pay, a multiyear research and public education initiative of the Economic Policy Institute to make wage growth an urgent national policy priority.