From pepp@pepp.org  Thu Sep  8 19:12:53 2005
From: pepp@pepp.org (pepp@pepp.org)
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:12:53 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [Media] [Fwd: Article from IN-FORUM]
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Subject: Article from IN-FORUM
From:    "Duke Schempp" <pepp@pepp.org>
Date:    Wed, September 7, 2005 1:35 pm
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http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=102272&section=business

Advocates tout living wage
By Craig McEwen
The Forum - 09/07/2005

About two-dozen people gathered Tuesday urging Fargo-Moorhead area
employers to start paying a living wage. You have to have a livable wage
in order to live, said Moorhead Councilwoman Diane Wray Williams.
Williams has been trying to convince the Moorhead City Council to raise
the $7.50-per- hour wage floor that companies receiving city tax breaks
must pay to workers. The gap between low and high wages is widening,
Williams said. The reality is that low wages dont pay the bills. The
group carried a banner across the Veterans Memorial Bridge between
Moorhead and Fargo to commemorate the fourth annual Universal Living Wage
campaign being held across the country. The banner read Bridge the
Economic Gap with a Universal Living Wage. A single person working full
time must earn $10.48 per hour to earn a living wage in Clay County, said
Joe Pederson, executive director of Lakes and Prairies Community Action
Partnership, an organization that assists low-income people. That figure
jumps to $17.37 per hour for one adult with two children and $22.43 for
two adults with two children, Pederson said. In 1999, the average hourly
wage in nine-county Minnesota Region 4 was $10.71 per hour, said Duke
Schempp, director of Moorhead-based People Escaping Poverty Project. Jobs
dont start at that here, Schempp said Tuesday.
Companies receiving money from Moorhead or the state to locate here should
be required to pay a standard wage, he said. That $7.50 an hour is just
too low. Schempp said he hopes Tuesdays rally turns awareness for a
universal living wage into a local issue. The fabric of our community
will improve from having good wages, he said.

Readers can reach Forum Business Editor Craig McEwen at (701) 241-5502

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http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=102272&section=business</p><p></p><p>Advocates tout living wage</p><p>By Craig McEwen</p><p>The Forum - 09/07/2005</p><p></p><p>About two-dozen people gathered Tuesday urging Fargo-Moorhead area employers to start paying a living wage.</p><p>You have to have a livable wage in order to live, said Moorhead Councilwoman Diane Wray Williams.</p><p>Williams has been trying to convince the Moorhead City Council to raise the $7.50-per- hour wage floor that companies receiving city tax breaks must pay to workers.</p><p>The gap between low and high wages is widening, Williams said. The reality is that low wages dont pay the bills.</p><p>The group carried a banner across the Veterans Memorial Bridge between Moorhead and Fargo to commemorate the fourth annual Universal Living Wage campaign being held across the country. The banner read Bridge the Economic Gap with a Universal Living Wage.</p><p>A single person working full time must e
 arn $10.48 per hour to earn a living wage in Clay County, said Joe Pederson, executive director of Lakes and Prairies Community Action Partnership, an organization that assists low-income people.</p><p>That figure jumps to $17.37 per hour for one adult with two children and $22.43 for two adults with two children, Pederson said.</p><p>In 1999, the average hourly wage in nine-county Minnesota Region 4 was $10.71 per hour, said Duke Schempp, director of Moorhead-based People Escaping Poverty Project.</p><p>Jobs dont start at that here, Schempp said Tuesday.</p><p>Companies receiving money from Moorhead or the state to locate here should be required to pay a standard wage, he said. That $7.50 an hour is just too low.</p><p>Schempp said he hopes Tuesdays rally turns awareness for a universal living wage into a local issue.</p><p>The fabric of our community will improve from having good wages, he said.</p><p></p><p>Readers can reach Forum Business Editor Craig McEwen at (
 701) 241-5502
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From pepp@pepp.org  Thu Sep  8 23:39:34 2005
From: pepp@pepp.org (pepp@pepp.org)
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:39:34 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [Media] Media Alliance to Meet
Message-ID: <4505.206.188.166.17.1126219174.squirrel@www.ipepp.org>

The Monthly Meeting of the Media Alliance will be:

Wednesday, September 14th

9:00 Am at the PEPP Building
116 12th St. S.



From duke@pepp.org  Thu Sep 22 17:58:26 2005
From: duke@pepp.org (Duke Schempp)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:58:26 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [Media] HPR letter
Message-ID: <1164.192.168.154.208.1127408306.squirrel@www.ipepp.org>

We got a leter printed in The High Plains Reader today.  It promotes the
Saturday Rally in FArgo.

Have a look at:

http://www.hpr1.com/dearjohn.htm

Thanks,

Duke