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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
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