Let Justice Roll members work to raise the minimum wage in states such as Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. More states to come! State CONTACT Information.

NEW: CHART UPDATED 10/31: States & Federal Minimum Wage 2007-09, PDF

REPORTS:
• EARN: Economic Analysis and Research Network State Reports
• Fiscal Policy Institute, New York’s 2005-2007 minimum wage increases:
Good for the state’s workers, good for the economy
• Fiscal Policy Institute, States with Minimum Wages above the Federal Level have had Faster Small Business and Retail Job Growth

GENERAL NEWS:
• The Record, Minimum wage hike proposed for NJ, 12/22/07
• CCH, Florida's minimum wage to go up to $6.79 January 1, 10/29/07
• Herald Tribune (FL), Impact of higher minimum wage in Sarasota unclear: Minimum wage boost for some in Sarasota is up for a vote Nov. 6, 10/26/07
• John Burbank, A fair minimum wage stokes economic growth, Herald (WA), 10/17/07
• CCH, Maine, Montana, Washington announce minimum wage increases, 10/12/07
• hr.blr.com, 6 states adjust minimum wage, 10/9/07
• Bellingham Herald, [Washington] State minimum wage to increase to $8.07, 10/2/07
• Oregon Center for Public Policy, Job Growth Not Dampened by Minimum Wage Raises, Study Shows, 9/19/07

View more at State Gen. News Archive and Letters to the Ed. Sampler

Arizona:
Contact Information: Let Justice Roll Arizona
Website:
TEXT: Proposition 202
News:
    • Mary Jo Pitzl, Arizona Republic, Focus shifts to feds after states
     lift wages, 11/20/06
    • Yes Vote 66%
    • Arizona Republic, Businesses await proposals' impact, 11/9/06
    • East Valley Tribune, Voters able to set Arizona's minimum wage,
     11/1/06
    • Arizona Daily Star Editorial, Prop 202: Yes: Raise the minimum
     wage, 10/22/06
    • Cortez Journal, Political ads vie for voters, 10/21/06
    • Letter to the Editor: Andrew Silverman and Stanley Lubin, Claims
     against minimum wage fall flat, Arizona Republic, 10/21/06 
    • Letter to the Editor: Rebekah Friend, Minimum wage not enough,
     Arizona Republic, 10/15/06
    • Letter to the Editor: Richard Conger, Minimum-wage editorial a
     loser, Arizona Republic, 10/14/06
    • Op-Ed: Rebekah Friend, Proposition 202 pro: Increase would help
     spur the economy, Arizona Daily Star, 10/15/06
    • Arizona State University Web Devil, Lawmakers, students rally for
     minimum wage increase, 10/9/06
    • Op-Ed: John Edwards, Wage hike pays for itself in better work, less
     turnover, Tucson Citizen, 10/2/06
    • Phoenix Business Journal, Polls show support for tobacco tax,
     minimum wage boost, 9/28/06
    • Op-Ed: Steve Gallardo, YES: A vote for 202 is vote for fairness,
     Arizona Republic, 9/28/06
    • Arizona Business Gazette, Women's business group honored,
     9/21/06
    • Arizona Republic, $1.60 boost could increase in future years, 9/17/06
    • Op-Ed: Linda Chavez-Thompson and Rebekah Friend, Working
     women have little to celebrate, Arizona Daily Star, 9/4/06
    • Arizona Republic, State minimum wage measure will be on
    ballot, 8/15/06
    • Tucson Citizen, Edwards: Raise minimum pay, 7/11/06
    • Op-Ed: Jim McLaughlin, Boost in pay is vital, Arizona Republic,
    7/9/06
    • Letter to the Editor: J.S. Oliver, Earn more, spend more,
    Arizona Republic, 7/8/06
    • Arizona Business Gazette, The fight over minimum wage: Who and
    how much? 7/6/06
    • Arizona Daily Star (AP), Petitions filed to put minimum wage
    initiative on AZ ballot, 6/26/06
    • William D. Carnegie, Arizona Daily Star, Arizona's hunger and
     poverty merit more political attention, 6/23/06
    • Arizona Daily Star, Minimum wage may get chance in Arizona,
     6/18/06
    • KOLD-TV (Tucson), Teens working summer jobs to save for college,
     5/31/06
    • Progressive Legislative Action Network, Daily Plan Blog, AZ:
     Anti-Immigrant Measures v Minimum Wage Hikes, 4/19/06
    • Business Journal of Phoenix, Phoenix mayor backs minimum wage
     boost, 4/13/06
    • Arizona Journal, Survey measures support for 2006 ballot
     initiatives, 4/7/06
    • Arizona Republic, Napolitano backs hike in minimum wage;
     Governor backs $6.75 an hour proposal for Nov. ballot [new poll
     shows strong support], 3/16/06
    • Arizona Daily Star Editorial, Arizona needs an increase in minimum
     wage: State legislators repeatedly refuse to act, so the best hope
     is an initiative to let the voters decide, 3/14/06
    • Tucson Citizen, It may take ballot box to boost minimum wage,
     2/21/06

Arkansas:
Contact Information: Arkansas Interfaith Conference
Website:
Press Release: Arkansas' Working Families Get Long-Overdue Raise, 4/10/06
News:
    • Arkansas News Bureau, Federal minimum wage increases, still lower
     than state minimum wage, 7/25/07
    • Arkansas News Bureau, Groups urge separation of minimum wage,
     estate tax proposals in Congress, 8/4/06
    • Arkansas Times, Arkansas Blog, The Religious Left, 5/20/06
    • Christian Post, Religious leaders applaud Arkansas wage
     increase, 4/14/06
    • Stories wanted: Baxter Bulletin, Is the Arkansas minimum wage
     increase a good thing? 4/11/06
    • Pine Bluff Commercial (AP), Huckabee signs Ark. minimum
     wage increase into law, 4/10/06
    • Arkansas News Bureau, Minimum wage gets final Senate OK,
     4/7/06
    • Democrat Gazette, Huckabee is open to lifting the wage floor with
     a statute, 3/17/06
    • Arkansas Times, Arkansas Daily Blog, Minimum wage moves,
     3/16/06
    • Arkansas Times, Is a deal working on minimum wage? Beebe hints
    at special session fix, 3/16/06
    • Ch 7-KATV (Little Rock), Clergy to support hike in statewide
    minimum wage, 1/19/06
    • Associated Press, Some members of the clergy back minimum
    wage hike, 1/19/06
    • KARN News Radio (Little Rock), Give Arkansas A Raise Now Ballot
    Initiative, Interview with Steve Copley, 1/5/06
    • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, The 2005 State of
    Working Arkansas, 1/10/06

California:
Website: http://www.calaborfed.org/issues_politics/Legislative/minimumwage.html 
Press releases:
   • California Dept of Industrial Relations, California’s minimum wage set to
    increase to highest in the nation $8 per hour rate starts with New Year     12/6/07
News:
   • Sacramento Bee, The cost of keeping up: Even a no-frills life can
     strain a family's budget, report finds, 10/17/07
   • Irvine World News, [Irvine] Council sets "living wage": City contract
     workers will also make at least $10 an hour, 5/22/07
   • Los Angeles Times, Living wage law may expand in L.A., 11/12/06
   • OneWorld, San Francisco spotlights workers' stakes in midterm
     elections, 10/31/06
   • KCBS, Economic power focus of religious conference in San
     Francisco, 10/25/06
   • Michelle Durand, San Mateo Journal, Working at a minimum, 10/19/06
   • Sacramento Bee, With Democrats at his side in L.A., governor signs
     minimum wage bill, 9/13/06. [$6.75 CA min wage rises to $7.50 on
     1/1/07 and $8 on 1/1/08.]
   • Santa Cruz Sentinel, State wage hike could help local measure,
     9/7/06
   • Op-Ed: Martin Bennett, Governor was right to increase minimum
     wage, Napa Valley Register, 9/4/06
   • Ventura County Star, Wage hike opinions differ, 8/23/06
   • Op-Ed: Dick Meister, It's criminal what Congress has done to the
     working poor, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 8/15/06
   • InsideBayArea.com, Is $6.75 enough?, 8/13/06
   • Sacramento Bee, Minimum-wage plan advances, 7/6/06
   • Sacramento Bee, Life on $6.75 an hour: When ends don't meet,
     6/18/06
   • San Francisco Chronicle, Minimum wage bills approved: Governor
     opposes automatic increases, 6/2/06
   • Petaluma Argus-Courier, Making a moral case for a living wage,
     5/31/06
   • San Francisco Chronicle, Governor, Legislators, act on minimum
     wage, 5/30/06
   • Working Alliance for a Just Economy, Minimum wage hike for Santa
     Cruz headed to November ballot [$9.25]
   • Letter to Editor: Vic Yellow Hawk White, Daily Democrat, Doubtful
     reasoning by columnist
    • Los Angeles Times, Ventura passes living wage ordinance, 5/17/06
     [$9.75 with health benefits, $12.50 without]
    • San Francisco Chronicle, Working to keep homelessness at bay,
     Part 5, 5/17/06
    • Young Workers United, San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media
     Center, Immigrant family fights back against employer abuse and ICE
     raid in San Francisco, 5/17/06
    • MSNBC, San Jose Business Journal, Fight looms over indexed
     increase to minimum wage, 5/14/06
    • San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Chavez's measure on the move, 4/29/06
    • Sacramento Bee, State job task force hit: Few businesses are cited
     for wage violations, 4/24/06
    • Santa Cruz Sentinel, Minimum wage hike for Santa Cruz headed
     to November ballot, 4/21/06
    • Orange County Register, How to up the minimum, 4/1/06
    • Capital Press Agriculture Weekly,  Wage debate begins, 4/7/06
    • Op-Ed: Barry Hermanson, Beyond Chron, The End of the Eight Hour
     Day, 2/27/06
    • Op-Ed: Jane Weed-Pomerantz, Julian Posadas and David Sweet,
     Santa Cruz Sentinel, Wage hike one small step toward social and
     economic justice, 2/19/06
    • Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley, The Economics of
     citywide minimum wages: The San Francisco Model, 1/2/06

Colorado:
Contact Information: Let Justice Roll Colorado
Website:
TEXT: Amendment 42
News:
    • Canon City Daily Record Editorial, Wage increase to help low-income
     voters, 11/23/06
    • Denver Post, Voting centers expose weak link in democracy,
     11/20/06
    • Yes Vote 53%
    • Rocky Mountain News, Business Briefs: Business owners' group
     supports wage measure, 11/3/06
    • Denver Post, Min wage, max fight, 10/30/06
    • David Milstead, Rocky Mountain News, Amendment 42's effect?,
     10/26/06
    • Denver Daily News, Vote in hands of young? 10/24/06
    • Rocky Mountain News, Restaurants divided, 10/24/06
    • Op-Ed: Jann Halloran and Wade Buchanan, Hike is the right thing
     morally, economically, Denver Post, 10/21/06
    • Rocky Mountain News, Kin relying solely on low earner at issue,
     10/21/06
    • YourHub.com, Morality defines minimum wage debate: Let Justice
     Roll Colorado, 10/20/06
    • Rocky Mountain News, Business Briefs, Groups join to support
     minimum wage issue, 10/18/06
    • Think Progress, Colorado Group: God, Moses oppose state
     minimum wage increase, 10/14/06
    • Denver Post, Coalition puts faith in minimum wage, 10/12/06
    • Rocky Mountain News, Minimum wage fight, 10/11/06
    • Denver Post, Minimum wage fears negated, 10/4/06
    • Rocky Mountain News, Minimum wage hike proposal stirs debate,
     10/5/06
    • Colorado Media Matters, Rocky uncritically reported conservative
     position that minimum wage increase would cause job loss, 10/2/06
    • Op-Ed: Wade Buchanan, New law would help thousands keep up
     with rising cost of living, Rocky Mountain News, 9/23/06
    • Colorado Springs Independent, Boon or Bone?, 9/21/06
    • Rocky Mountain News, Minimum-wage proposal most popular ballot
     item, 9/20/06
    • Op-Ed: Timio Archuleta, Coloradans deserve a fair minimum wage,
     The Coloradoan, 9/4/06
    • The Coloradoan, Minimum wage hike in hands of voters, 9/4/06
    • Denver Post, Ethics, wage and marriage initiatives make November
     ballot, 8/15/06
    • Denver Post, The wage conundrum: Should the minimum be raised,
     8/5/06
    • Rocky Mountain News, Higher minimum wage sought, 8/4/06
    • CBS4 (Denver), Groups rally at capitol for minimum wage increase,
     8/3/06
    • 9News, Push to raise minimum wage in Colorado, 8/3/06 
    • Craig Daily Press, Chilean workers file lawsuit, say Dickinson family
     exploited them, 6/6/06
    • Journal Advocate Editorial, For employers, Good news, bad news,
     5/17/06
    • International Labor Communications Association, Public News
     Service, CO Voters May Get To Decide What is “Fair Pay”  5/3/06
    • Rocky Mountain News, Voters could face question on wages, 1/10/06

Georgia:
Contact Information:
Website: http://www.georgialivingwage.org/
News:
    • Gainesville Times, Poverty exercise shows struggle to live with less,
     9/27/07
    • Op-Ed: Lya Sorano, Businesses back wage raise; state should, too,
     Atlanta Journal Constitution, 7/24/07
    • Tammy Joyner, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Minimum wage hike
     kicks in today: 70 cent raise is first increase in 10 years, 7/24/07
    • Clayton Daily News, State minimum wage supporters to continue
     fight despite federal raise, 7/20/07
    • Editorial: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, State should raise minimum
     wage so workers can afford basics, 7/17/07

Illinois:
Contact Information:
Website:
News:
    • Chicago Tribune, Hourly wages going up to $7.50, 7/1/07
    • Quad City Times (IL), Minimum wage hike heads to Gov.
     Blagojevich's desk, 12/2/06
    • WQAD (IL), Living on minimum wage, 12/2/06
    • AP, Illinois House OKs raising minimum wage, 11/29/06
    • Chicago Tribune, Government's say over pay: Reader Responses,
     11/16/06
    • State Journal-Register, Panel OKs minimum wage hike, 11/15/06
    • Chicago Tribune, Big-Box battle not over yet, 9/14/06
    • Reuters, Chicago mayor vetoes big-box living wage ordinance,
     9/11/06
    • Chicago Tribune, Visiting officials say wage laws didn't hurt their
     cities, 8/17/06
    • Chicago Tribune, "Big-Box" wage law to get outsider aid, 8/16/06
    • Santa Fe New Mexican, [Mayor] Coss joins wage-law fight in Chicag,