The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

It`s essential that we build a grassroots movement and we say to Trump to the president-elect, stop, you can`t go over this line again. You`ve got to work to heal and not to continue to fan the flames of racist and xenophobic and anti-Semitic talk, period.

We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.