[Vision2020] FW: Raise the Minimum Wage Sign the Petition

[TIM RIGSBY]

>It’s time to raise the minimum wage!
>
>Despite being the richest country in the world, we now have 37 million 
>Americans, including 13 million children, living in poverty.  In fact, the 
>poverty rate for full-time, year round workers has increased 50% since the 
>late 1970’s.  And, while CEO-pay soars to obscene levels, the minimum wage 
>for America’s workers has fallen to a 50-year low.
>
>It’s outrageous.
>
>But, while the American public overwhelmingly supports raising the minimum 
>wage, big corporations, like Wal-Mart, through its industry lobbyists and 
>right-wing politicians are standing in the way.
>
>That ends today!  It’s time to take our country back from billion dollar 
>corporations, like Wal-Mart, and fight for the American people.
>
>Please sign our petition calling on the U.S. Congress to raise the minimum 
>wage:
>
>http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/feature/minwage/petition.html
>
>Unfortunately, under President Bush and the Republican Party, Wal-Mart and 
>big corporations have been able to use our government to line their own 
>pockets at the expense of the American people.
>
>Rather than stand up for America, Wal-Mart uses its influence to ship our 
>jobs overseas, not provide company health care to more than half of its 
>employees, and pay poverty-level wages.  We cannot allow Wal-Mart and 
>corporate America to take our country in the wrong direction.
>
>It’s time to stand up for America’s workers and raise the minimum wage.
>
>Please sign our petition calling on the U.S. Congress to raise the minimum 
>wage:
>
>http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/feature/minwage/petition.html
>
>As you know, our campaign is not just a fight to change Wal-Mart; it is a 
>fight for what kind of America we want to live in.  Raising the minimum 
>wage to $7.25 per hour will benefit 15 million Americans, including 9 
>million women and 6 million people of color.
>
>Only you have the power to take back America and give America’s workers a 
>raise.
>
>Please take action today,
>
>Paul Blank
>http://wakeupwalmart.com
>
>P.S.  Please send this email to at least 5 friends and ask them to join you 
>in our fight to raise the minimum wage.
>
>
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