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If Wal-Mart doesn't pay its workers a living wage, only hires PART TIME WORKERS to avoid paying benefits and you pick up the Wal-Mart Welfare Tab for LOW WAGE JOBS, what have we accomplished? How do we define the Moral Bankruptcy of a nation that lets its families and children go hungry? 

  
If other companies can pay their workers a living wage, why can't they all?

Please consider adding your name to speak for those who can't!


 Sign the mega-petition from Daily Kos and 16 Democratic senators: Raise the minimum wage to $10.10 or higher.

A must-read new study shows that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 / hour would reduce dependency on food stamps and cut spending by even more than how much Republicans wanted to cut food stamps late last year. Here is a quick summary:

That $46 billion over 10 years is more than the $40 billion House Republicans wanted to cut, only this reduction could be achieved by raising people's wages, not by simply taking away the nutrition assistance they need to survive.

This is how we should be pulling Americans out of poverty and reducing public spending--by giving people a living wage for an honest day's work.

Sign the petition from Daily Kos and 16 Democratic senators: Raise the minimum wage to $10.10 or higher.

Keep fighting,
Chris Bowers, Daily Kos

P.S. Original minimum wage email from earlier this week below

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From: Chris Bowers, Daily Kos
Subject: Signature needed: This one thing could lift millions of Americans out of poverty

Here’s the one simple—but shocking—fact about the minimum wage that Republicans don’t want you to know: Working full time at a minimum wage job will leave you below the poverty line.

Sign the petition from Daily Kos and over a dozen Senate Democrats: Raise the minimum wage.

President Obama put raising the minimum wage front and center at the State of the Union address and Democrats nationwide have rallied around this one simple idea that could raise millions of Americans out of poverty.

Public opinion is overwhelmingly on our side. Economists are on our side. Common sense and decency are on our side. It's time for a raise for all Americans struggling at the minimum wage.

Sign the petition: Raise the minimum wage.

Keep fighting,
Chris Bowers, Daily Kos

Bad news. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has refused to delay the food stamp cuts—even though 119,588 of you signed our petition to him earlier this week. Which makes it all the more urgent that states—including Massachusetts—take immediate action to reverse the awful food stamp cuts passed by Congress last month. Signature needed: Tell your governor to take immediate action to restore all food stamp funding in Massachusetts. So far three governors—including one Republican—have taken the necessary action to reverse food stamp cuts in their states. But there are still 13 states, including Massachusetts, where hundreds of thousands of poor families are going to start seeing a reduction in food assistance unless their state governments take immediate action. Sign and send the petition now. Tell your governor to restore all food stamp funding in Massachusetts. Keep fighting, Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos Date: Thu Mar 06, 2014 1:30 PM From: Chris Bowers, Daily Kos Subject: BREAKING: All food stamp cuts reversed in three states. Massachusetts can do it, too. Sign and send the petition now. In a last-second twist, New York and Connecticut have found a clever way to prevent their residents from suffering any food stamp cuts at all! And Pennsylvania just joined them as well. Every state facing food stamp cuts, including Massachusetts, can do the exact same thing. Signature needed: Tell your governor to take the simple action that will prevent anyone in Massachusetts from facing food stamp cuts. It is complicated to explain, and you can read an explanation here. But the bottom line is this: If a state increases its minimum monthly heating assistance benefit to $20 without kicking anyone out of the program, then no one in that state would face food stamp cuts. Two of the 16 states—New York and Connecticut—have already done this, thanks to the leadership of Govs. Andrew Cuomo and Dan Malloy. And just today, Pennsylvania's governor—a Republican, to boot—followed their lead. The other 13 states need to join them now. Sign and send the petition demanding that your governor increase heating assistance to low-income families as a means of restoring their food stamp benefits. Keep fighting, Chris Bowers, Daily Kos

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