NEW
REPORT:
"A Just Minimum
Wage: Good for Workers, Business and Our Future"
Counters all the arguments against raising the
minimum wage and offers vital insight into why
the minimum wage is an economic imperative for
the enduring strength of our workforce, businesses,
communities and economy, and a moral imperative
for the very soul of our nation.
In
and Around Congress • Action
Links • Resource
Links • Chart
Chart
NEW: UPDATED
Chart: States
& Federal Minimum Wage 2007-09,
10/31/07, PDF
Chart: Real
Value of the Minimum Wage 1938 - 2006
In
and Around Congress:
7/24/07 Press Release: At July 24 Capitol Hill Rally Let Justice Roll Leader Calls for Making Minimum Wage a Living Wage
7/16/07 Press Release: Wage On: For Let Justice Roll, July 24 Minimum Wage Hike Is Just Step Toward Living Wage
5/25/07 Press Release: Minimum Wage Raise Long Overdue Says Let Justice Roll
5/9/07 Press Release: Let Justice Roll Hails State Victories, Tells Congress to Heed Will of People and Raise Minimum Wage Now
5/8/07 Action Alert: Tell Congress Finish the Job on Minimum Wage! Toll-Free Call In May 9 - 11
3/22/07 Updated Action Alert: Don't Link Minimum Wage to Iraq War: Tell House & Senate to Conference on Minimum Wage Bills Already Passed
2/1/07 Press Release: Let Justice Roll Welcomes Senate Vote Raising Minimum Wage: Urges a Clean, Final Bill
1/29/07 Press Release: Business Owners From Every State Say Higher Minimum Wage Helps Business: Costco CEO, Small Business Majority, US Women's Chamber of Commerce, Business Leaders Nationwide Urge Senate To Raise Minimum Wage
1/19/07 Press Release: Hundreds of Business Leaders Tell Congress To Raise Minimum Wage
01/08/07 Press Release: Over 1,000 Faith Leaders Urge Congress to Raise Minimum Wage
11/17/06
Shawn Zeller, Congressional Quarterly,
The New
Business Wage Boosters
11/16/06
Press Release:
Statement By
Rev. Sherry of the Let Justice Roll Campaign
at Senate Minimum Wage Press Conference
10/31/06
Press Release:
Business
Owners, CEOs Say Higher Minimumm Wage Good for
Business
9/27/06
Press Release:
Let
Justice Roll Mobilizes Values Voters with Hundreds
of Minimum Wage Events Across U.S.: October "Living
Wage Days" Build Momentum for Ballot Measures
in Arizona, Colorado, Misouri, Montana and Ohio
ACTION
ALERT: Sign-On
Letter, Phone Senators Opposing
New Efforts to Link Minimum Wage to Estate Tax
Reduction, Other Bad Legislation, 9/6/06
ALERT:
Vote
Close: Tell Senators to Oppose Bait and Switch
Minimum Wage. Call Toll Free. 8/3/06
HR
5970 passed by the House on 7/29/06, section on
minimum wage
Rep.
George Miller, A Report on the Republican
Poison Pill Parade and Office of Rep. Steny
Hoyer, Democrats
Create Minimum Wage Momentum, 7/27/06
7/13/06
Press Release:
Let
Justice Roll Raising State Minimum Wages, Pushing
Federal Hike
Report
Prepared by the Democratic Staff of the U.S. Senate
Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions,
Their
Fair Share: Creating a Just Economy for Minimum
Wage Families, 7/12/06
Report
prepared by the Office of Sen. Kennedy, When
Work Doesn't Pay: Minimum Wage Families In America:
A View from the States, 6/29/06
6/22/06
Press Release:
Let
Justice Roll Campaign Calls On House Of Reps.
To Represent People By Raising Minimum Wage
6/21/06
Press Release:American
Friends Service Committee, ...Urges House
of Reps to Raise the Minimum Wage and Reject Thomas
Estate Tax Give Away
6/20/06:
Press
Release:
Faith
and Community Leaders Urge Congress To Give Workers
A Raise: A $7.25 Minimum Wage Is The Least We
Can Do
3/10-13/06:
Let
Justice Roll at Ecumenical Advocacy Days
1/16/06:
Living
Wage Days: Kennedy Joins Religious, Community
Leaders To Demand Increase in Minimum Wage
12/14/05:
Sen. Kennedy and
Reps. Hoyer and Miller joined by National Council
of Churches Gen. Sec. Robert Edgar of Let Justice
Roll in call to raise minimum wage in true Christmas
spirit
11/7/05
Press Release:
Religious
Leaders Announce National Grassroots Campaign
to Raise Wages at the Federal and State Levels
11/7/05:
Religious
Leaders Letter to Congress
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