The website is www.sevendaysatminimumwage.org What began earlier this week as a grassroots effort to highlight the needs of America’s minimum wage workers has gained a giant blogosphere profile – more than 10,000 video views, daily honors on YouTube, mass media stories and dozens of blogger links, the website reported.
The website is sponsored by ACORN and the AFL-CIO and is hosted by Barr, a member of ACORN. It feainterviews with seven workers describing what life is like living on the edge of homelessness and hunger. "I never felt more hopeful or more connected to people with real ideals and beliefs,” said Barr, who mobilized Ohio voters in 2005.
On Nov. 7, voters in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Missouri, Montana and Ohio will vote on similar minimum wage hikes. ACORN, America’s largest community organization of low-and-moderate-income families, and the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation, are leading a movement to raise the minimum wage through legislation and political action. The federal minimum wage hasn’t been increased in 10 years.
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Visit the website, www.sevendaysatminimumwage.org
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The website is www.sevendaysatminimumwage.org What began earlier this week as a grassroots effort to highlight the needs of America’s minimum wage workers has gained a giant blogosphere profile – more than 10,000 video views, daily honors on YouTube, mass media stories and dozens of blogger links, the website reported.
The website is sponsored by ACORN and the AFL-CIO and is hosted by Barr, a member of ACORN. It feainterviews with seven workers describing what life is like living on the edge of homelessness and hunger. "I never felt more hopeful or more connected to people with real ideals and beliefs,” said Barr, who mobilized Ohio voters in 2005.
On Nov. 7, voters in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Missouri, Montana and Ohio will vote on similar minimum wage hikes. ACORN, America’s largest community organization of low-and-moderate-income families, and the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation, are leading a movement to raise the minimum wage through legislation and political action. The federal minimum wage hasn’t been increased in 10 years.
For more information
Visit the website, www.sevendaysatminimumwage.org