Walmart recently announced its plans to donate $2 billion to fight domestic hunger in the United States.

But if the company is truly concerned about ending hunger, shouldn't it start by re-evaluating its own role in perpetuating poverty throughout America?

Tell Walmart to prove its commitment to fighting hunger by paying its 1 milion American employees a living wage.

The average full-time Walmart employee makes $10.86 per hour, which, when adjusted for inflation, is actually less than the company's typical worker earned in 2004.

Meanwhile, Walmart executives and shareholders are living like kings. Former CEO H. Lee Scott's 2007 compensation package was an incredible $31.6 million, plus an extra $30 million in stock holdings (Walmart's new CEO earned a "mere" $19.2 million in fiscal year 2010).

Walmart has the money to fairly compensate its employees. It just needs the will. Create it for them — sign the petition below!

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