Bernie Sanders: US sick of subsidizing 'starvation wages' at Walmart and McDonalds

Lawmakers hear from low-wage workers as Congress debates first rise in the minimum wage in over a decade

US taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize some of the largest and most profitable corporations in America", Bernie Sanders told a Senate hearing on Thursday.

As Congress debates the first rise in the minimum wage in over a decade, the Vermont senator said he had talked to too many workers in this country who, with tears in their eyes, tell me the struggles they have to provide for their kids on starvation wages" even as the chief executives of companies including McDonald's, Walmart and others take home multi-million dollar pay packages.