Us: Starbucks mobilizes employees to urge politicians to resolve the "fiscal cliff"

Coffee chain operator Starbucks announced on Wednesday that it would use its iconic coffee cup to appeal to US lawmakers to reach an agreement as soon as possible to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff and to prevent tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts from being launched on their own. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz (Howard Schultz) called on the company's 120 Washington, D.C.