Bernie Sanders: " But in the midst of this slow recovery, we must not accept a "new normal"

US Senator Bernie Sanders penned an op-ed in The Guardian newspaper about not accepting the "new normal" of a slow economic recovery.

From The Guardian

The front pages of American newspapers are filled with stories about how the US economy is recovering. There is some truth to that. Since President George W Bush left office in 2009, significant progress has been made in moving our economy out of the abyss of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. But in the midst of this slow recovery, we must not accept a "new normal".