Prepare to Engage! National Day of Action!
On April 16th, we will again “Occupy” the outside of our nation’s Post Offices, where you live, to Promote the Universal Living Wage. We will fly 4′ by 10′ banners and hand signs promoting our call for Income Equity for our working poor.
Our flyer will carry the message that, “If businesses paid fair living wages, we could reduce our tax burden by lessening excess reliance on food stamps, TANF, EITC and other tax supported programs.” Our Letter to the Editor promotes the idea that Income Inequality begins with our working poor…the socio-economic base of our nation’s work force, and we can fix it with the Universal Living Wage.
“If all businesses paid a Universal Living Wage, we could reduce the tax burden on every single American!”
It is so important that we begin to compile our concrete list of demands that identify Income Inequities coupled with viable suggestions for change:
According to the last several US Conference of Mayors Reports, no one working at a full time minimum wage job can afford to get into and keep a one bedroom apartment anywhere throughout the country. According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, this will result in 3.5 million homeless minimum wage workers this year alone.
In as much as the Federal Government sets the Federal Minimum Wage level (this year it is $7.25 an hour or about $14,000), and businesses (corporate and otherwise) pay the least of their workers by this standard,
It Is Proposed:
That the Federal Minimum Wage be re-set to afford 40 hour a week workers the ability to afford basic Food, Clothing and Shelter (at least an efficiency apartment utilities included) wherever that work is done throughout the US. This can be characterized as a Living Wage.
Thank you Vermonters for caring enough about our world to get out there and do a tough job.We stand with you. The world is watching.
What do we do to draw attention to our cause?
TAX DAY 2012
Prepare to Engage! National Day of Action!
On April 16th, we will again “Occupy” the outside of our nation’s Post Offices, where you live, to Promote the Universal Living Wage. We will fly 4′ by 10′ banners and hand signs promoting our call for Income Equity for our working poor.
Our flyer will carry the message that, “If businesses paid fair living wages, we could reduce our tax burden by lessening excess reliance on food stamps, TANF, EITC and other tax supported programs.” Our Letter to the Editor promotes the idea that Income Inequality begins with our working poor…the socio-economic base of our nation’s work force, and we can fix it with the Universal Living Wage.
All materials are free at http://www.UniversalLivingWage.org and by e-mailing Richard R. Troxell at rrtroxell@aol.com to get your banners, button, pens, and hand signs.
“Reduce your taxes!” …with a http://www.Universallivingwage.org
“If all businesses paid a Universal Living Wage, we could reduce the tax burden on every single American!”
It is so important that we begin to compile our concrete list of demands that identify Income Inequities coupled with viable suggestions for change:
According to the last several US Conference of Mayors Reports, no one working at a full time minimum wage job can afford to get into and keep a one bedroom apartment anywhere throughout the country. According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, this will result in 3.5 million homeless minimum wage workers this year alone.
In as much as the Federal Government sets the Federal Minimum Wage level (this year it is $7.25 an hour or about $14,000), and businesses (corporate and otherwise) pay the least of their workers by this standard,
It Is Proposed:
That the Federal Minimum Wage be re-set to afford 40 hour a week workers the ability to afford basic Food, Clothing and Shelter (at least an efficiency apartment utilities included) wherever that work is done throughout the US. This can be characterized as a Living Wage.
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