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Billion Dollar Corporations Bankroll Poverty Wages Political Action Committees opposing Proposition 210 have raised over $2.25 million from huge corporations in the past few weeks. Major donations to No on 210 PACs include: Chevron Companies $100,000 Web Service Co., Inc. $100,000 Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers $100,000 Atlantic Richfield Company $55,000 Pepsico (owns Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC)  $50,000 Philip Morris $50,000 Hughes Electronics Corporation $50,000 Pacific Enterprises $50,000 The Irvine Company $50,000 Harman Corp. (Owns 250 KFC restaurants)  $45,000 Air Touch Communications $35,000 Burger King franchises $34,000    (more) Pepsico: For Some Rich Corporations, Greed Has No Limit Pepsico gave $50,000 to a No on 210 PAC. Pepsico is poverty wage employer that want to squeeze the last penny out of its hard working employees. Pepsico own Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut and Chevy's restaurants, Frito Lay, and Pepsi soft drinks. Last year Pepsico made a profit of $1.6 billion and paid its CEO Roger Enrico, $13.8 million in salary and stock options. Yet Pepsico doesn't want to share even 60 cents an hour with its hard working employees. It would take a minimum wage Taco Bell worker 1400 years to earn as much as Mr. Enrico made in one year. Source: Business Week	New Jobs Up: Federal Minimum Wage Raise Caused No Job Loss SACRAMENTO, CA -- Backers of Prop. 210, the initiative to raise the minimum wage, hailed today's U.S. Department of Labor report that the nation's economy created 210,000 new jobs in October, after the $.50 increase in the federal minimum wage. This job growth represented a sharp turn-around from September, when non-farm jobs had fallen by 35,000. "Today's report that 200,000 new jobs were created since the October. 1 increase in the federal minimum wage shows how false are the opposition's claims that Prop. 210 will cost California jobs," said Yes on 210 Campaign Manager Richard Holober . (more)
	California Newspapers Endorse Proposition 210 Editorial pages from across the state have recommended a "yes" vote on 210. For example, the Sacramento Bee writes: "Proposition 210, the minimum-wage increase on the November ballot, would put in place one of the bricks needed to build a reformed welfare system. If California demands that parents work to support their children, a job must pay well enough to feed, clothe and house them." (more ) A partial list includes: Sacramento Bee , "Yes on Minimum Wage Boost," Fresno and Modesto Bee , "Yes on Prop. 210," San Francisco Chronicle,,"Raise the Minimum Wage," Oakland Tribune, "Yes on Prop. 210: Increase Minimum Wage," Contra Costa Times Santa Rosa Press Democrat Napa Register San Mateo Times Ventura Star La Prensa
Community Groups, Religious Organizations and Labor Back 210 A partial list of endorsers: California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO California Small Business Owners Alliance League of Women Voters California Council of Churches Congress of California Senior Consumer Federation of California Lutheran Office of Public Policy of California Country Tickets Board of Rabbis of Northern and Southern California Cardinal Roger Mahony, Archdiocese of LA Archbishop William J. Levada, Archdiocese of SF Sierra Club San Francisco Tickets California Teachers Association California School Employees Association California Federation of Teachers National Organization for Women (NOW) Wicked San Francisco Children's Advocacy Institute Children Now Los Angeles Ecumenical Congress Los Padres, Inc. (National Association of Hispanic Clergy) American Jewish Congress Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Stanford University Catholic Charities of California California Association of Catholic Hospitals Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund The Rainbow Coalition Older Women's League Oakland Tickets American Association of University Women State Building and Construction Trades Council Peace Officers Research Association of California Urban League of Sacramento California Organization of Police and Sheriffs California Democratic Party California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation California Tickets California Women's Law Center Concert Tickets Asian Law Caucus National Caucus of Jewish Women Equal Rights Advocates Sweatshop Watch White Christmas Tickets
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