Starbucks CEO Creates Site Focused on Jobs, Not Politics

August 25, 2011

Howard Schultz has created www.UpwardSpiral2011.org and an accompanying Facebook page to enlist business leaders in a pledge to stop giving money to political parties and start using company profits to put Americans back to work.

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