bernie sanders

From RRCTV:

Basketball with Bernie. Recorded in Rutland on September 14, 2024.

From the Office of Senator Bernie Sanders:

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, Champlain Housing Trust (CHT), and other local housing leaders will come together this Friday, August 16, to celebrate breaking ground on the construction of new affordable housing and a veterans center in Burlington.

Sanders secured $1 million for the project through the FY2022 Congressionally Directed Spending process.

This funding will allow the CHT and the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ (VFW) Howard Plant Post 782 to redevelop the old VFW building into a new space that provides veterans services and permanently affordable housing to Vermonters – including apartments reserved for homeless veterans. The veterans service center will also expand programs to assist combat veterans with post-deployment reintegration, camaraderie, and navigating VA health care and benefits.

Senator Sanders is joined by Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak; Michael Monte, CEO of Champlain Housing Trust; Nancy Owens, President of Evernorth; Michelle Caver, Post Commander and Service Officer, VFW Post 782; Rev. Mark Hughes, VFW Post 782; and local leaders.

From the Office of Senator Bernie Sanders:

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday will bring Vermonters together for three youth basketball events in Winooski, Derby, and St. Albans. Each event will include a free throw competition that is open to Vermonters ages 5-18, regardless of skill level or background. RSVPs are encouraged to save a spot. All youth participants will receive a free basketball.

From the Office of Senator Bernie Sanders:

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today at 10:00 a.m. ET, will lead the committee in a hearing titled, “Examining the Dental Care Crisis in America: How Can We Make Dental Care More Affordable and More Available?”.

Today in America, nearly 70 million adults and nearly 8 million children have no dental insurance and many of those who do have dental insurance find that coverage to be totally inadequate. More than 40 percent of children in America have tooth decay by the time they reach kindergarten, and about half of our nation’s seniors have no dental insurance. One out of five seniors are missing all their natural teeth and cannot afford a full set of dentures, which can cost many thousands of dollars. Estimates show 70 percent of older Americans have some sort of periodontal disease which can lead to rheumatoid arthritis and cardiovascular disease.

This crisis affects Americans of all ages and is only getting worse, hitting rural communities and low-income families the hardest. According to the CareQuest Institute for Oral Health, there were 1.8 million visits to emergency rooms across the country for preventative dental conditions in 2019 – a 62% increase from 2014.

Speakers include:

• Lisa Simon, MD, DMD, Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Member of the Faculty, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
• Myechia Minter-Jordan, MD, MBA, President and CEO, CareQuest Institute for Oral Health, Boston, MA
• Brian Jeffrey Swann, DMD, MPH, Board of Directors, Remote Area Medical (RAM), Co-Chair, Global Oral Health Outreach, National Dental Association, Rockford, TN
• Gordon Roswell Isbell, III, DMD, MAGD, Past Trustee, Academy of General Dentistry, Gadsden, AL
• Debra Sacco, DMD, MD, District III Trustee, American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, Chapel Hill, NC