MINIMUM WAGE WATCH
Inflation adjusted in $2008

> 1950 - $6.67
> 1968 - $9.86
< 1997 - $6.88
< 2008 - $6.55

Let Justice Roll Launches National Campaign for
$10 in 2010 Minimum Wage
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Ongoing state campaigns to raise the minimum wage in Georgia, Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Tennessee

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LIVING WAGE DAYS

"Resources For Living Wage Services & Community Events" (PDF)  

 

Reuters, Bernd Debusmann, In rich America, Third World inequality, 7/30/08

Religion News Service, Faith groups push minimum wage hike to $10, 7/31/08

Editorial: The Tennessean, Mandatory raise's detractors don't consider living on it, 7/24/08

Press Release: Raise the Wage, Kansas City, Kansas, Wyandotte County Commissioners vote to raise the minimum wage! 7/24/08

Reuters, Minimum wage set to rise, but views vary, 7/23/08

Institute for Public Accuracy News Release: Minimum Wage Hike, with Holly Sklar and Johanna Chao Kreilick, 7/23/08

UUSC, Another milestone on the road to economic justice, but struggle continues nationally and in the states, 7/23/08

Igniting Change in 2008 and Beyond, Ms. Foundation for Women Blog, Minimum Wage Woes, 7/23/08

UU Blog, Why UU Service Committee Supports Living Wage $10 in 2010 Campaign , 7/23/08

Are you surviving on minimum wage? Tell us your stories and send photos and videos showing how you're fighting back. CNN IReport.

The Kansas City Star: Diane Stafford, Full-time workers deserve
more than poverty-level income.
7/22/08

Chart: Real Value of the Minimum Wage 1938 - Mid 2008

Op-ed: Holly Sklar Minimum wage raise too little, too late, Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune News Service 7/22/08

Press release: National Faith-Community Alliance Launches Campaign to End Poverty Wages Let Justice Roll Urges Faith Leaders to Endorse Call for $10 in 2010 7/22/08

Bill Moyers Journal, Watch Holly Sklar, Are We Living the American Dream in Reverse? PBS, 6/13/08
Holly Sklar discusses the state of the American dream and what's needed for progress in the future.

Watch the show at Bill Moyers Journal on PBS or YouTube.
Read a transcript of the show and Blog comments

LETTERS to the Editor Sampler

Mike Hall, AFL-CIO Blog, Employer Doesn't Pay You? Under Bush Wage and Hour Dept., You're Out of Luck, 7/16/08

New York Times [Labor] Department Is Criticized on Disputes Over Wages, 7/15/08

UU 2008 Action of Immediate Witness, Raise the Federal Minimum Wage to $10 in 2010, 7/10/08

McClatchy Newspapers, Obama vows to expand Bush's faith-based initiative, 7/1/08

Op-ed: James Lardner, Minimum Wage x 3 = Nearly a Living Wage, Inequality.org 6/19/08

Op-ed: Billie Stanton, What they plan to do with our money, Tucson Citizen 6/18/08

Op-ed: Holly Sklar, Tax Day gifts for the rich, Providence Journal 4/15/08

Op-Ed: Adam Cohen, Editorial Observer After 75 Years, the Working Poor Still Struggle for a Fair Wage, New York Times 6/17/08

Letter: Put Your Stimulus Payment to Work for Living Wages, 5/1/08

Rev. Rebekah Jordan, UMNS Faith leaders call for living wage, honor King 3/18/08

Michael Lollar, Living wage advocates rally: National and local coalitions to fast for 24 hours in support of earnings increases, 3/13/08

MINIMUM WAGE 40% LESS ON 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF DR. KING'S FINAL DAYS IN MEMPHIS, Faith Leaders Call for Living Wage at Interfaith Gathering, March 13th

Econ-Atrocity blog, Raise the minimum wage!, 2/29/08

Press Release: Faith Leaders Call for Living Wage on 40th Anniversary of Dr. King's Work in Memphis: Interfaith Gathering in Memphis, March 13, with National and Local Speakers 2/26/08

Jim Abrams, AP, Congress members get $4,000 pay raise, 1/9/08

Bill Boyne, Post Bulletin (MN), The rich keep getting richer, 12/28/07

Bread for the World, Hunger 2008: Working Harder for Working Families (pdf)

UC Berkeley Labor Center, Wage Policies and Wal-Mart: How a Higher Wage Standard Would Impact Wal-Mart Workers and Shoppers (pdf), 12/07

UC Berkeley Labor Center, A Downward Push: The Impact of Wal-Mart Stores on Retail Wages and Benefits (pdf), 12/07

Al Norman, Huffington Post A $10 minimum wage at Wal-Mart?, 12/07

Op-Ed: Holly Sklar, Billionaires up, America down, McClatchy-Tribune News Service

DMI Blog, Minimum Wage, Maximum Good, 10/31/07

Op-Ed: John E. Schwarz, Raise poverty line to reflect economic reality, Newsday, 9/18/07

Robert Kuttner, Boston Globe, For workers, it's no holiday, 9/3/07

U.S. Census Bureau, annual Income, Poverty and Health Insurance reports

David Moberg, In These Times, The Secret Lives of Plutocrats, 8/28/07

Dallas Business Journal, July's minimum wage hike has only upside for workers and businesses, 8/9/07

Jim Hightower, Pushing for Shared Prosperity, 8/8/07

Cleveland Plain Dealer Editorial, CEO pay and the minimum wage, 8/6/07<

Op-Ed: Holly Sklar, Pay CEOs less, minimum wage workers more, McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Support the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA): Click here for Faith Leaders Sign On Letter, More Actions and Information

Post-Election Teleconference Click Here to Listen

U.S. Census Bureau, annual Income, Poverty and Health Insurance reports

Wal-Mart/wages:
•  A Just Minimum Wage, Ch. 6, "Low Road vs High Road" on "Wal-Mart business model; Costco comparison
•  http://walmartwatch.com/
• Business Week, What's with Wal-Mart's sales woes? 11/29/06
• Business Week, The flip side of Wal-Mart's pay hikes, 8/14/06
•  WakeUpWalMart.com responds to Wal-Mart's salary changes, 8/8/06
• New York Times, Wal-Mart's latest special: 6% raises in some stores, 8/8/06
• Los Angeles Times, Wal-Mart to raise and limit wages, 8/8/06
• Bloomberg, Wal-Mart stores to increase starting pay rates, 8/7/06
• AP, Wal-Mart backs hike to minimum wage, 6/28/06
• Roll Call, Wal-Mart Flip-Flopped [on min wage], 6/28/06
• Economic Policy Institute, The Wal-Mart Debate: A False Choice Between Prices and Wages, 6/15/06

View more in National News/Releases Archive

 

" A Just Minimum Wage: Good for Workers, Business and Our Future"
By Holly Sklar
& Rev. Paul Sherry

Powerful economic and moral case for raising minimum wage and moving the U.S. from the low road to high road of enduring economic progress. A job should keep you out of poverty, not keep you in it. More

• "Should be prescribed reading for members of congress." Post-Bulletin (MN) More
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BUSINESS PEOPLE: SIGN-ON Statement to raise min. wage
  800 Signatories to date
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State Campaign Contacts

States & Federal Minimum Wage 2008-09, PDF

New Hampshire: New Hampshire Council of Churches, Let Justice Roll Urges Faith Leaders to Endorse Call for $10 in 2010

New Jersey: Star Ledger, Agency to combat homeless problem, 8/3/08 [Studies by Monarch Housing Consultants showed a person earning minimum wage would have to work three full-time jobs to earn enough for a one-bedroom apartment in Middlesex County.]

Tennessee: Carly Harrington, Going beyond the minimum, Knoxville News Sentinel, 7/25/08

Kansas: Kansas City Star, Minimum wage rises to $6.55 in Kansas City, Kan., 7/25/08

General: Sound Off: Is the new minimum wage high enough?
Journal Star (Lincoln, NE) Blog, 7/24/08

Oklahoma: Editorial: Norman Transcript, Fuel, food cost jumps minimize wage hike, 7/24/08

Tennessee: Editorial: The Tennessean, Mandatory raise's detractors don't consider living on it, 7/24/08

Tennessee: AP and Memphis Commercial Appeal: Minimum wage hike just 'a drop in the bucket. 7/24/08

Tennessee: Op-Ed: Jerry Lee, A fair wage is our social responsibility, The Tennessean, 7/24/08

West Virginia: Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Lawmakers: Federal minimum wage increase good for workers. 7/21/08

Missouri: Buffalo Reflex [MO] Feelin' the pinch: the impact of high fuel prices 7/16/08

Arkansas: Arkansas News Bureau Arkansas families casualties of souring economy 7/14/08

General: AP [CT] General Assembly overrides minimum wage veto 6/23/08

 

 
 

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The Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign is a fast-growing nonpartisan program of more than ninety faith, community, labor and business organizations who have joined together to raise the minimum wage at the federal level and in states such as Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and more.

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