U.S. senator calls for minimum wage increase for working class: The Guardian

LONDON, April 20 (Xinhua) -- U.S. senator Bernie Sanders has called on the U.S. Congress to raise the minimum wage to a living wage for the working class, in an opinion piece in The Guardian.

"At a time of massive and growing income and wealth inequality and record-breaking corporate profits, we must stand up for working families -- many of whom are struggling every day to provide a minimal standard of living for their families," Sanders wrote in the article for the newspaper.