Bernie Sanders has said: The top 15 hedge fund managers on Wall Street make more money in a single year than every kindergarten teacher in America combined - over 120,000 teachers.

Bernie Sanders has said: The top 15 hedge fund managers on Wall Street make more money in a single year than every kindergarten teacher in America combined - over 120,000 teachers.

He added: "If we can provide over a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the top 1 percent and large corporations," said Senator Bernie Sanders this week, "please don't tell me that we cannot afford to make sure that every teacher in America is paid at least $60,000 a year."

“I want the day to come, sooner than later, when we are going to attract the best and brightest young people in our country into teaching,” said Sanders. “I want those young people to be proud of the profession that they have chosen.”

Sanders will soon be introducing legislation, the Pay Teachers Act, to ensure that all teachers make at least $60,000 annually and guarantee significantly higher pay for educators “who have made teaching their profession — working on the job for 10, 20, 30 years.”