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Toronto Star,
Unchanged for years, minimum wage rises, 7/21/07
Rob Hotakainen, Kansas City Star/McClatchy Newspapers,
Members of Congress stand to receive automatic salary increases, 7/27/07
Beth Shulman and Cathy Ruckelshaus,
Getting that higher wage, TomPaine.com, 7/25/07
Mike Kelly, Cox News Service,
Minimum wage increase takes first jump, 7/25/07
OneWorld,
Working Americans celebrate minimum wage raise, 7/25/07
Press Release:
At July 24 Capitol Hill Rally Let Justice Roll Leader Calls for Making Minimum Wage a Living Wage, 7/24/07
AHN,
U.S. minimum wage increase; Business owners disagree on potential outcome, 7/24/07
UUSC,
Long overdue minimum wage increase gives U.S. workers much-needed boost; active state campaigns, 7/23/07
AP,
Federal minimum wage to rise on Tuesday, 7/21/07
Common Good Network,
Interview with Holly Sklar, 7/20/07
Press Release:
Wage On: For Let Justice Roll, July 24 Minimum Wage Hike Is Just Step Toward Living Wage, 7/16/07
AP,
House members vote to accept $4,400 cost of living pay raise, 6/28/07
Economic Policy Institute,
What a new federal minimum wage means for the states, 6/1/07
OneWorld,
Anti-poverty advocates cheer minimum wage increase, 5/31/07
Press Release:
Minimum Wage Raise Long Overdue Says Let Justice Roll, 5/25/07
OneWorld.net,
Minimum wage increase likely to remain tied to war bill, 5/18/07
Inc.,
Despite House vote, more delays expected on minimumw wage and tax cuts, 5/11/07
Press Release:
Let Justice Roll Hails State Victories, Tells Congress to Heed Will of People and Raise Minimum Wage Now, 5/9/07
Does Raising the Pay of Low-Wage Employees Reduce their Rate of Sickness Absence? Evidence
from the Impact of Minimum Wage Legislation [in the UK]
Op-Ed: Holly Sklar,
Minimum wage raise is good for business, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
National Low Income Housing Coalition, Out of Reach 2006
AP, War bill delays minimum wage hike, 4/30/07
Center for American Progress, Public Opinion Snapshot: Americans Extend Helping Hand to the Poor, 4/27/07
Center for American Progress, From Poverty to Prosperity: A National Strategy to Cut Poverty in Half, 4/25/07
Boston Globe, A deal is set on minimum wage: Breaks included on business taxes, 4/24/07
Reuters, U.S. lawmakers agree on minimum wage tax package, 4/23/07
Coalition of Immokalee workers, McDonald's and McDonald's suppliers reach agreement to improve farmworker wages, working conditions, 4/9/07
Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Institute, More poverty than meets the eye, 4/11/07
CNN, Lou Dobbs Tonight, 4/6/07
GovExec.com, Lawmakers plan endgame for wartime spending bill [min wage], 4/5/07
Robert Kuttner, Boston Globe, Comeback attempt for the labor movement, 3/31/07
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), Share of National Income Going to Wages and Salaries at Record Low in 2006: Share of income going to corporate profits at record high, 3/29/07
CBPP, New Data Show Income Concentration Jumped Again in 2005: Income Share of Top 1% Returned to Its 2000 Level, the Highest Since 1929
Economic Policy Institute, Recent income gains went to those with highest income, 3/28/07
Dan Sewell, AP, Labor unions fight for relevance in US, 3/23/07
Marilyn Geewax, Cox News Service, Minimum wage making minimum progress through Congress, 3/15/07
Congressional Quarterly, Background on attaching minimum wage to Iraq supplemental, 3/9/07
AP, Minimum-wage issue a lesson to Democrats on limits of power, 3/10/07
Paul Sherry, Sojourners, Maximizing the minimum, February 2007
Economic Policy Institute, A Fish is Not a Fowl: Tax Credits and the Minimum Wage, 2/27/07
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, "Small Business" Tax Package in Senate Minimum Wage Bill Poses Fiscal Risks, 2/27/07
Max B. Sawicky, Minimum wage, maximum pork, Business Week, 2/19/07
Op-Ed: Oren M. Levin-Waldman and Charles J. Whalen, Raise minimum wage to boost economy, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 2/9/07
Press Release: Let Justice Roll Welcomes Senate Vote Raising Minimum Wage: Urges a Clean, Final Bill, 2/1/07
Reading Eagle (PA), Speakers focus on poverty issues, 2/10/07
Toronto Star, Surviving on $5.15 an hour, 2/5/07
USA Today Editorial, Poorest Americans have waited too long for a raise, 2/1/07
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, 1/29/07
Morton Mintz, The Nation online, Will Congress reform wretched executive excess? 1/26/07
Press Release: Hundreds of Business Leaders Tell Congress To Raise Minimum Wage, 1/19/07
CBPP, A $7.25 minimum wage would be a useful step in helping working families escape poverty, 1/5/07
Winston-Salem Journal, Minimum Wage Applauded: Church activists say increase helps but doesn't fully solve the problem, 1/13/07
Religious Action Center: 450+ Rabbis, Rabbinical Students Call for Federal Minimum Wage Hike, 1/11/07
Bloomberg, House votes to raise minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, 1/10/07
AP, US House passes minimum wage vote, 1/10/07
Christian Post, Over 1,000 faith leaders urge Congress to raise minimum wage, 1/9/07
Press Release: Over 1,000 Faith Leaders Urge Congress to Raise Minimum Wage, 1/08/07
Katrina vanden Heuvel & Sam Graham-Felsen, The Nation, Morality of the Minimum, 1/1/07
Economic
Policy Institute, The
State of Working America 2006/2007
Reports
from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
on minimum wage, poverty, income, taxes, budget
cuts, etc. at www.cbpp.org
Thomas Ferraro, Reuters, Democrats to raise wages for poor workers, 12/14/06
Christopher
Hayes, The Nation, The
New Democratic Populism, 12/4/06
Op-Ed: Holly Sklar, Minimum
wage breaks no-raise record, Distributed
by McClatchy-Tribune News Service, 12/1/06
Ellen
Simon, AP, Minimum
wage hike won't go far, 11/30/06. Photos
The
Hill, Dems,
allies plot strategy, 11/29/06
Business Week, What's
with Wal-Mart's sales woes? 11/29/06
Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe, Days
late, dollar short, 11/29/06
Jim Buchanan, Asheville Citizen Times (NC), From
an unlikely corner comes a warning of trouble
ahead for a divided nation, 11/26/06
Ralph Martire, Chicago Sun Times, Minimum
wage increase is economic justice, 11/25/06
Business
Week, More
ammo for a higher minimum, 11/27/06
Dow
Jones MarketWatch, Minimum
wage, mixed impact, 11/24/06
Minneapolis
Star-Tribune, Wage
debate tops agenda for Congress, 11/18/06
Press
Release: Statement By
Rev. Sherry of the Let Justice Roll Campaign
at Senate Minimum Wage Press Conference,
11/16/06
Transcript, Senate
News Conference on Minimum Wage with Senators
Kennedy, Clinton, Schumer, Let Justice Roll,
ACORN, AFL-CIO, SEIU, 11/16/06
Shelly
Moskowitz, UUSC Human Rights Blog, Let
Justice Roll, 11/16/06
Kevin Freking, AP, Democrats
prepare to raise minimum wage, 11/16/06
New
York Times Editorial, Will
fair pay have its day? 11/15/06
Hartford Courant Editorial, No
applause please, 11/15/06
Press
Release: Business
Leaders and Minimum Wage Organizers on Landslide
Victories, What's Next? Post-Election Teleconf.
Highlights and Replay Available, 11/13/06
Cleveland
Plain Dealer, Federal
wage hike in spotlight in '07, 11/11/06
Los
Angeles Times, Election could drive minimum wage hike,
11/9/06
David
Moberg, In These Times, What
did the voters say? 11/10/06
Christian Science Monitor, New
blue goals on Hill: tax cuts out, higher wages
in, 11/9/06
Press
Release: Landslide
for Minimum Wage: What Happened, What's Next,
Analyzed in Nov. 9 Teleconference, 11/8/06
Religion
News Service, Who
won, who lost in midterm elections, 11/8/06
Press Release: Landslide for Minimum Wage: What Happened, What's Next, Analyzed in Nov. 9 Teleconference, 11/8/06
AFL-CIO
Blog, Even
business leaders support a minimum wage boost,
11/6/06
Op-Ed: Bob Edgar, The
faithful will vote for American values, San Francisco Chronicle, 11/3/06
Press
Release: Business
Owners, CEOs Say Higher Minimum Wage Good for
Business, 10/31/06
7
Days at Min Wage, Oct. 23–30, Roseanne
Barr hosts
Hundreds
of Economists Say Raise
the Minimum Wage, 10/06
Op-Ed: Holly Sklar, Economy
booming for billionaires, Distributed by
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Katrina
VanDen Heuvel, The Nation, Whose
Morality? 10/31/06
Zachary
A. Goldfarb and David S. Broder, Washington
Post, This
time, ballot issues could rally liberal base,
10/28/06
Op-Ed: Marian W. Edelman, It's
time to make work pay, Chicago Defender,
10/27/06
David
Leonhardt, When
jobs are bountiful and pay isn't, New
York Times, 10/25/06
PBS
NOW: Question
of the week: What hourly rate do you think the
minimum wage should be and why? 9/27/06
Scripps
News/Minneapolis -St. Paul Star Tribune Editorial, Past
time to raise the minimum wage, 10/17/06
Chris
Farrell, Business Week, Raise
the minimum wage, 10/17/06
David
R. Francis, Christian Science Monitor, Momentum
builds for wage hike, 10/16/06
Faith
in Public Life Blog, Rev. Paul
Sherry and Rabbi Jill Jacobs: Let
Justice Roll, 10/06
Economic
Policy Institute, Securing
the Wage Floor: Indexing would maintain the
minimum wage's value and provide predictability
to employers, 10/06
Rev.
Kevin A. Johnson, October
brings faith-based activism, Desert
Sun (Palm Springs, CA), 10/14/06
Ellen
Simon, AP, Nobel
winners call for minimum wage hike, 10/12/06
Op-Ed: David Bonior, Labor
board's ruling guts the right to form unions, Detroit News, 10/11/06
The Hill, Democrats renew efforts to block lawmakers' pay raise [until min wage increased], 10/4/06
OneWorld.net, Pastors
push living wage as election issue, 10/3/06
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, 9/27/06
Vancouver
Sun, Making
the minimum wage a moral and religious issue,
9/23/06
Roll
Call, Meet
Him In the Middle; Former Rep. Edgar's Book
Reflects on Faith and Politics, 9/12/06
Business
Week, Wal-Mart
doesn't discount politicians, 9/27/06
Marketplace
Radio, Health
care costs only double inflation, 9/26/06.
"Average family policy costs nearly $11,500
-- more than a full-time minimum wage worker
earns in an entire year."
Op-Ed: Rep. Peter King (R-NY), Now
is the time to raise the minimum wage, The
Hill, 9/13/06. King sponsored The
Minimum Wage Competitiveness Act (H.R. 3413).
Op-Ed: Tom Palaima, Greed
is blowing pay gap out of proportion, Austin American
Statesman, 9/12/06
Rhonda Chriss Lokeman, Kansas City Star, Falling
wages create more working poor, 9/10/06
Paul Krugman, New York Times, Whining
over discontent, 9/8/06
Poll: CNN, 9/7/06. "86
percent said they favor Congress passing legislation
that would raise the minimum wage."
Jewish
Week, Congress
returns, sort of, 9/8/06
The
Hill, Leaders
under pressure, 9/6/06
The Hill, Trifecta
deja vu threatens tax extenders, 9/5/06
Michael
J. McManus, VirtueOnline, Justice
demands a rise in minimum wage, 9/6/06
Steven
Greenhouse, New York Times, Many
entry-level workers find a rough market,
9/4/06
M.
Linda Jaramillo, United Church News, Witness
for Justice: Celebrate a Labor Day That Means
Something, 9/4/06
Op-Ed: Amy Glasmeier, American
dream requires a living wage, Centre
Daily Times, 9/4/06
Atlanta Journal Constitution Editorial, Low-paid
workers wage losing battle, 9/4/06
Wall Street Journal, Grappling
over minimum wage builds as Republicans disagree,
9/2/06
Steven
Greenhouse and David Leonhardt, New York
Times, Real
Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity,
8/28/06
Op-Ed: Holly Sklar, Congress
values own paychecks more than workers,
Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services
Interfaith
Worker Justice: Delegation
Tool Kit for the Fair Minimum Wage Act,
2006
Op-Ed: Holly Sklar and Rev. Paul Sherry, The
Moral Minimum, TomPaine.com
America:
Catholic Weekly Magazine, Editorial: Raising
the Minimum Wage, 8/28/06
AFL-CIO,
Tell
Congress It's Time for a Real Vote to
Raise the Minimum Wage
Op-Ed:
Rick Wilson, Repeal
of estate tax would harm country, future
generations, Charleston Gazette
(WV), 8/13/06
Episcopal
News Service, "Jubilee
People" national conference moved
to living wage hotel, 8/14/06
AP,
AFL-CIO
to work with day laborers group, 8/9/06
Denver
Post Editorial, Minimum
wage, no strings, 8/7/06
USA Today Editorial, So
much to do, so little time...so Congress
skips town, 8/6/06
AP,
Senate
rejects estate, minimum wage bill,
8/4/06
Roanoke
Times (VA) Editorial, House
GOP teases the poorest workers, 8/3/06
Washington
Post, An
estate tax twist reverses party roles
on minimum wage, 8/3/06
Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial,
A
gift to the rich - at others' expense,
8/3/06
Tony
Pugh, McClatchy Newspapers, Low-wage
workers ready for Congress to act,
8/2/06
Harold
Meyerson, Washington Post, Minimum
wage, maximum gall, 8/2/06
Arkansas
Democrat Gazette, Bush's
nominee quizzed by panel, 8/2/06 [Paul
DeCamp has been nominated to head the
Labor Department’s wage and hour
division. "Earlier, while in private
practice, he represented Wal-Mart in Dukes
v. Wal-Mart... a class of nearly
1. 6 million current and former employees
allege that [Wal-Mart] systematically
denied women the same pay raises and promotions
as their male counterparts."]
Washington
Post, Drama
in the Senate: Rich Plan, Poor Plan,
8/1/06
Editorial Roundup: Washington
Post, Bad
Bargain, 8/1/06
• The Tennessean,
Wage
hike, tax-cut sham, 8/1/06
• Denver
Post, Hike
in minimum wage long overdue, 8/1/06
• Louisville
Courier-Journal (KY), Wages
of cynicism, 8/1/06
• St.
Petersburg Times (FL), Minimum
wage hoax, 8/1/06
Family
Promise, The Advocate, Congress
again votes down a minimum wage increase,
August 2006
Economic
Policy Institute, House-passed
minimum wage bill cuts wages for tipped
employees in seven states by as much as
$5.50 per hour, 7/31/06
AP,
House
approves minimum wage increase, 7/30/06
HR
5970 passed by the House on 7/29/06, section
on minimum wage
Mary
Adamski: View
from the Pew, The Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
7/29/06
AP,
House
Republicans move on minimum wage vote,
7/28/06
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
Poll:
New York Times/CBS News, Americans
showing isolationist streak, poll finds, 7/27/06
"Over all, 85 percent of respondents
supported a Democratic proposal raising
the minimum wage over the next two years
to $7.25 an hour from $5.15 an hour, including
majorities of Republicans and independents."
H.R.
5787, Minimum
Wage Competitiveness Act of 2006,
Sponsor: Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY)
Boston
Globe, House
vote vowed on minimum wage: GOP whip predicts
measure will pass before elections,
7/26/06
Seattle
Times/Los Angeles Times, College-grad
wages stuck in a slump, 7/25/06
Op-Ed: Susanna Rodell, Hartford Courant/Charleston
Gazette (WV), Why
is the only bad raise a hike in minimum wage? 7/24/06
Op-Ed: Ron Stief, Time
to increase the minimum wage, Atlanta
Daily World, 7/22/06
Reading
Eagle (PA) Editorial, The
poor deserve an increase in pay, 7/22/06
Pamela
Brogan, Gannett News Service,
Congress
denies minimum-wage hike, raises own pay,
7/21/06
Washington
Post, Senate
appropriations panel quickly approves
four bills, But Congress likely to deal
with biggest issues this fall, 7/21/06
Decatur
Daily (AL) Editorial, Wage
hike makes sense to some Republican voters,
7/20/06
Erik
Eckholm, Study
documents "ghetto tax" being
paid by the urban poor, New York
Times, 7/19/06
Teresa
Tritch, The
rise of the super-rich, New York
Times, 7/19/06
The
Hill, Few
GOP hopefuls commit to raising minimum
wage, 7/19/06
Erie
Times News (PA), English
seeks vote on minimum wage, 7/18/06
San
Francisco Chronicle, Democrats
hope minimum wage push pays off, 7/17/06
["Kennedy said he plans to offer
the minimum wage increase as an amendment
to the pending transportation appropriations
bill, which includes the latest congressional
pay raise of $3,300."]
Albany
Times Union Editorial, Pay
politics, 7/16/06
Peter
Urban, Connecticut Post, Congress
leaves poor out in the cold, 7/16/06
Op-Ed:
Premilla Nadasen, Welfare
rule changes hurt states, the poor,
Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 7/16/07
Ann
McFeatters, Scripps News, A
people's pay raise, 7/13/06
7/13/06:
Press Release: Let
Justice Roll Raising State Minimum Wages,
Pushing Federal Hike
New
York Times Editorial, Earning
that congressional raise, 7/13/06
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
National
Journal Hotline blog, Endangered
House GOPers seek summer cover, 7/12/06
["A group of 25 moderate House Republicans...
have penned a letter to Maj Leader John
Boehner seeking a vote to increase the
minimum wage before the August recess."]
Jim
Abrams, Associated Press, GOP
joins symbolic vote on minimum wage,
7/12/06 ["The House voted 260-159
to urge House-Senate negotiators to include
a minimum wage boost... to $7.25 in jobs
covered by a job training bill under discussion.
64 Republicans... joined Democrats in
backing the non-binding resolution."]
Lorinda
Bullock, NNPA National Correspondent,
Amsterdam News,
Economic
Gap Widens between Blacks and Whites,
7/12/06
The
Hill, Struggle
to move 1,700 earmarks [includes min
wage legislative prospects], 7/12/06
CBS
Evening News, text and :
Religion
taking a left turn?, 7/9/06
Boston
Globe, House
GOP leaders say vote on minimum wage now
likely, 7/4/06
Op-Ed:
Bob Herbert, Working
for a pittance, New York Times,
7/3/06
Austin
American-Statesman Editorial, When
$15,000 a year is too much money,
6/30/06
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
AXcessNews.com,
Large
student loan interest rate hike looms,
6/28/06
Reuters,
Democrats
push hard for increase in minimum wage,
6/27/06
USA
Today, Some
lawmakers balk at proposed boost in salaries,
6/25/06
The
Tennessean Editorial, Congress
stiffs workers, 6/25/06
Op-Ed:
Robert Kuttner, Boston Globe,
Survival
of the Richest, 6/24/06
New
York Times Editorial, Afflicting
the afflicted, 6/23/06
Beverly
Goldberg, Century Foundation, Forgetting
unpleasant truths: A minimum wage salary
equals poverty [Katrina lessons for
future disasters], 6/23/06
Jack Z. Smith, Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Serving
up cream to America's fat cats, 6/23/06
6/22/06:
Press Release:
Let
Justice Roll Campaign Calls On House Of
Reps. To Represent People By Raising Minimum
Wage
Liza
Featherstone, The Nation blog,
Wal-Mart
helps defeat minimum wage, 6/22/06
BlackAmericaweb.com, Labor
activists, working poor blast Senate refusal
to raise minimum wage, 6/22/06
AP/CNN,
House
votes to slash inherited estate taxes,
6/22/06
Christian
Science Monitor, If
minimum wage is raised, who benefits?
6/22/06
Christian
Science Monitor, Minimum
wage vote vexing for GOP, 6/22/06
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
AP,
Senate
kills minimum wage increase, 6/21/06.
Widely published wire story quotes Sen.
Kennedy echoing Let Justice Roll message:
"A job should lift you out of poverty,
not keep you in it.
Katrina
VanDen Heuvel blog, The Nation,
Shafting
the Working Poor, 6/21/06
Jill
Zuckman, Chicago Tribune, Senate
rejects hike in minimum wage, 6/21/06
[check out House Majority Leader John
Boehner quotes]
OMB
Watch, How
Sen. Lamar Alexander killed the effort
to raise the minimum wage, 6/21/06
AP,
Senate
rejects bid to raise minimum wage,
6/21/06
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
Institute
for Public Accuracy News Release, An
impoverished minimum wage? 6/20/06
Faithful
America, Raising
the minimum wage is a matter of fairness
Center
for American Progress, The
High(er) Stakes of the Minimum Wage Debate,
6/20/06
Jared
Bernstein, Pay
Raise Politics, TomPaine.com, 6/20/06
Bloomberg
News, Bid
to boost minimum wage suffers setback,
6/20/06
Miami
Herald Editorial, Looking
out for No. 1--forgetting the needy,
6/20/06
Wall
Street Journal, Democrats
look to keep minimum wage on table,
6/20/06
Letter
to the Editor: Steven P. Alpert,
Congress
gives itself a raise, but what about the minimum
wage, USA Today, 6/19/06
Tennessean
Editorial, Congress
is caught up in wage embarrassment,
6/19/06
Washington
Post (AP), House
lawmakers accept $3,300 pay hike,
[pay would rise to $168,500 on Jan. 1], 6/13/06
USA
Today (AP), House
lawmakers accept $3,300 pay hike,
6/13/06
CNN (Reuters), House
panel backs minimum wage increase,
6/13/06
United
Methodist Global Ministries, Fair
Wages: A Community Concern, 6/06
Washington
Post, Democrats
renew push for Mariana labor bill,
6/7/06
Press
Enterprise (CA), Living
on the edge: US Mayors want to widen poverty
fund distribution, 6/1/06
Rick
Wilson, Raising
the Minimum Wage: Let Justice Roll,
Peacework, May 2006
Center
for American Progress, Double
Whammy: High gas prices hammer minimum
wage earners, 5/24/06
Forbes,
Wage
War, 5/31/06
Cleveland
Jewish News, Clergy
counter religious right with liberal voices,
5/26/06
Op-Ed:
Robert Kuttner, Boston Globe,
Here's
a job Americans would do, 5/27/06
MSN
Money, Living
wage: How about $9 an hour?, 5/25/06
Boston
Globe Editorial, Calling
off class war, 5/22/06
In
These Times, Hey
Millennials, Debt becomes you, 5/18/06
GoErie.com
(PA), English
predicts passage of higher minimum wage,
5/16/06
Anna
Quindlen, Newsweek, Undocumented,
Indispensable, 5/15/06
Business
Support for Minimum Wage: POLL:
Minimum
Wage Has No Impact on Small Business:
Wells Fargo-Gallup Small Business Index
shows nearly half support increasing the
minimum wage, 5/9/06
Erik
Eckholm, New York Times, America's
"Near Poor" Are Increasingly
at Economic Risk, 5/8/06
Katrina
vanden Heuvel, The Nation, $13,700
an hour, 5/1/06
Silla
Brush, U.S. News & World Report, A
Winning Bet? Efforts to increase the minimum
wage are proliferating, 5/1/06
Paul
H. Sherry, A
Just Wage for All, Street Spirit,
American Friends Service Commitee, 4/06
United for a Fair Economy and Public Citizen
Congress Watch, Spending
Millions To Save Billions: The Campaign of the
Super Wealthy to Kill the Estate Tax, April
2006
H.R. 2429, Fair
Minimum Wage Act, Sponsor: Rep. George Miller
(D-CA)
Letter
to House Majority Leader John Boehner requestng
minimum wage vote before August recess, signed
by 28 Republicans
Morton
Mintz, Ask
candidates about minimum wage, Nieman
Watchdog, 4/26/06
Progressive
Legislative Action Network, Daily Plan
Blog, Cracking
down on wage law violations, 4/25/06
Michael
Ash, To
have or have-not, Online Journal,
4/25/06
Holly
Sklar, Backbone Campaign/ Progressive
Government Inst. Conversations with the
Cabinet: Build a Healthy Economy, Raise
the minimum wage, joined by Paul Sherry,
podcast [click Listen Now, then click
play], 4/24/06
Business
Support for Minimum Wage: Puget
Sound Business Journal (WA), Many
small businesses support minimum wage
hike, 4/24/06
Steven
Greenhouse, New York Times, Immigrant
workers find support in a growing network
of assistance centers, 4/23/06
Op-Ed:
Dan
Webster, Institutionalizing
the working poor, Salt Lake
Tribune, 4/22/06
Newsday
(AP), Sen.
Clinton wants no raise without minimum
wage boost [tying congressional pay
to min wage], 4/20/06
Springfield
News-Leader, Edwards
talks moral high road, 4/20/06
POLL:
Michael Dimock, Pew Research Center
for the People & the Press, Maximum
Support for Raising the Minimum, 4/19/06
Stephanie
Armour, USA Today, High
costs of child care can lead to lifestyle
changes, adjustments, 4/18/06
Christian
Post, Religious
leaders applaud Arkansas wage increase,
4/14/06
The
Oprah Winfrey Show, Living
On Minimum Wage, 4/14/06
Edward
Peeks, Charleston Gazette (WV),
Momentum
building for
minimum wage hike, 4/11/06
Katrina
vanden Heuvel and Sam Graham-Felsen, The
Nation, Giving
Americans a Raise, 4/10/06
View
From Abroad: US Min Wage: Belfast
Telegraph, Janet Devlin, Inside
Spurlock's underworld, 4/8/06
4/7/06
Press Release:
Powerful
report shows fair minimum wage good for
workers, business and our future
Op-Ed:
John Sweeney, Raising
the bar, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
4/2/06
One
America For All Of Us blog (Iddybud), Let's
raise the federal minimum wage, 3/31/06
Op-Ed:
Holly Sklar, Wanted:
A High Road Economy, TomPaine.com,
3/17/06
States
Take On Minimum Wage: Across U.S. Activists
Push Ballot Measures To Lift Workers'
Pay, Wall Street Journal,
3/14/06
Let
Justice Roll at Ecumenical Advocacy Days,
3/10-13/06
Parade,
What
People Earn, 3/12/06
The
Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign:
A Job Should Keep You Out of Poverty,
Not Keep You In It
Rev. Paul H. Sherry, Center for American
Progress, State Progress: Minimum Wage,
3/1/06
Let
Justice Roll, Gerry McCarthy, TheSocialEdge.com, 2/06
High
wages, low wages and morality, Christian
Science Monitor, 1/30/06
Working
poor, Charleston Gazette
(WV) Editorial, 1/25/06 [Quotes "A
Just Minimum Wage"]
Kennedy
Keynotes Greater Boston Living Wage Event,
Quincy Sun, 1/19/06; Patriot
Ledger, 1/17/06; UUA roundup
Op-Ed:
Rev. Paula M. Jackson, King's
vision of adequate wages for all workers,Cincinnati
Enquirer, 1/16, Cincinnati Post,
1/13/06
What
Is a Living Wage?, New York Times
Magazine, 1/15/06
Op-Ed:
Holly Sklar, King
would tell Congress to value workers,
Cox News Service, MSNBC, TomPaine.Com,
Cleveland Plain Dealer, Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
many more, 1/13/06 on
Op-Ed:
Holly Sklar, Martin
Luther King y la etica salarial, Nuevo
Herald, 1/16/06
Wage
fight to get aid from King,
Diane
Stafford, Kansas City Star,
1/14/06
1/13/06
Press Release:
Faith
and Community Groups Hold "Living Wage
Days" Events Across Nation to Honor MLK
Birthday With Urgent Call To Raise the
Minimum Wage
2005
Marilyn
Geewax, Cox News Service, Coalition
sets MLK holiday for minimum wage push,
11/12/05
MarketWatch,
Campaign
for higher minimum wage kicks off,
11/8/05
Human
Events, God
says raise the minimum wage, 11/8/05
WIS-TV (S. Carolina), Group
of religious leaders joins supporters
of minimum wage increase , 11/7/05
11/7/05
Press Release:
Religious
Leaders Announce National Grassroots Campaign
to Raise Wages at the Federal and State
Levels
Religious
Leaders Letter to Congress, 11/7/05
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