New Report:
"A Just Minimum Wage: Good For Workers, Business and Our Future"
By Holly Sklar and The Rev. Dr. Paul H. Sherry
Foreword By The Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes Jr.

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Charts:

NEW: UPDATED Chart: States & Federal Minimum Wage 2007-09, 10/31/07, PDF
Chart: Real Value of the Minimum Wage 1938 - 2006

Let Justice Roll T-Shirts
 
Union Made T-Shirts with Let Justice Roll logo and motto: A job should keep you out of poverty, not in it

Living Wage Days Resources:

• Resources For Living Wage Worship Services & Community Events (PDF) 2nd edition.
• For more information and resources, click on Living Wage Days
• UUSC and Santa Fe Living Wage Network's La Marcha: Working for Economic Justice DVD: This 25-minute film tells the story of the extraordinary Santa Fe Living Wage Campaign, which emerged through the efforts of diverse community-based organizations to build a grassroots coalition, enlist business allies and illustrate core U.S. values. The film can be used as a springboard for action on economic justice issues in your community.
• The interactive multimedia Just Neighbors Tool Kit is designed to educate congregations and groups about poverty and wages and empower people as advocates. The format is flexible and easily tailored to your group’s needs. Each session can be used on its own, or Just Neighbors can be used as a series.
• Center of Concern, Education for Justice, Minimum Wage Bulletin Insert: Derechos De Los Trabajadores: Hoja de Datos sobre la Pobreza en America y la Necesidad de un Sueldo que cubra las necesidades basicas, August 2006

Faith Leaders Statements:

01/8/07: Over 1,000 Faith Leaders Urge Congress to Raise Minimum Wage
11/7/05: Religious Leaders Letter to Congress

Resource Links:

• Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies That Work For All Of Us: www.raisethefloor.org
• Interfaith Worker Justice: http://www.iwj.org/index.html
• AFL-CIO America Needs A Raise minimum wage campaign
• ACORN: Raise the Minimum Wage Campaign
• Ballot Initiative Strategy Center: http://www.Ballot.org
• Economic Policy Institute: www.epi.org
• Basic Family Budget Calculator for more than 400 communities at: http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/datazone_fambud_budget
• Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, Living Wage Program
• Center for American Progress: www.americanprogress.org
• Center for Economic and Policy Research: www.cepr.net
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: http://www.cbpp.org/
• Fiscal Policy Institute: www.fiscalpolicy.org
• Political Economy Research Institute, Labor Markets and Living Wage program
• U.S. Dept of Labor minimum wage information: http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/flsa/
• Information on the Fair Minimum Wage Act and other legislation: http://thomas.loc.gov/

Also see State Campaigns