{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=FAA27D8F-A634-4E69-ACFD-83818BEEC32A", "Shrinking Paychecks", "2013-08-26", "2013", "2013-08", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Shrinking Paychecks\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tMonday, August 26, 2013\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tPaychecks for U.S. workers are not keeping up with inflation. The average hourly pay was $8.77 last month. That level of pay for workers who aren\u2019t on a government payroll and aren\u2019t supervisors is down from $8.85 four years ago, according to inflation-adjusted data from the U.S. Department of Labor. With Labor Day approaching, Sen. Bernie Sanders has co-sponsored legislation to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.\u00a0 Sanders also has spoken out in support of fast-food workers who have staged one-day walkouts throughout the country to bring attention to what he called the \u201cstarvation wages\u201d and \u201ceconomic injustice.\u201d\r\nWatch the Senate floor speech \u00bb", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=FAA27D8F-A634-4E69-ACFD-83818BEEC32A"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5684189274907112, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}