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Amazon is offerring its workers holiday bonuses of $150 to $300. Jeff Bezos could pay a $105,000 bonus to every Amazon worker and still be as rich as he was at the start of the pandemic.

The Vermont senator noted that "47% of workers in Georgia make less than $15 an hour and 71% of voters in Georgia support increasing the federal minimum wage."

Covid-19 "has demonstrated that not only is the U.S. violating workers' rights, but those violations are resulting in people dying."

"A lack of funding for emergency relief and the complications created by the coronavirus scourge have now pushed some of the world's neediest populations closer to famine conditions."