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 2/5: States & Federal Minimum Wage 2008-09 , PDF
REPORTS:
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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
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Fiscal Policy Institute,
States with Minimum Wages above the Federal Level have had Faster Small Business and Retail Job Growth
GENERAL NEWS:
• Governor signs minimum wage increase Maine raises minimum wage to $7.25 on 10/1/08, $7.50 on 10/1/09, 4/17/08
• Stateline.org, More states give tax credits to working poor, 4/16/08
•
FDC Dept. of Employment Services, The District’s Living Wage Rate Increases by 3 Percent [to $12.10], 3/3/08
• 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, 3/13/08
• DC Dept. of Employment Services,
The District’s Living Wage Rate Increases by 3 Percent [to $12.10], 3/3/08
View more at State Gen. News Archive and Letters to the Editor Sampler
Arizona:
Contact Information:
Let Justice Roll Arizona
LEGISLATION 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:
•
Northern Colorado Business Report,
Poverty: it's not just for the unskilled
anymore, 2/9/08
•
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:
• Op-Ed:
Brian Goldner,
Emory should work for fair pay, The Emory
[Univ.] Wheel 3/31/08
•
The Signal (GA State University),
Coalition holds news conference
to raise state minimum wage 3/18/08
•
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
Coalition pushes for minimum wage rise
2/28/08
•
GSU Signal,
Graduate students, advocacy group rally at Capitol to
raise state's minimum wage, 2/26/08
•
New Poll
,
Finds Overwhelming Majority of Georgians Support Federal
Minimum Wage for State's Working Poor, 2/25/08
•
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,
8/10/06
•
New York Times,
Chicago orders "Big Box" stores to raise wage,
7/27/06
•
Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune,
Real fear is that higher pay won't be
disaster, 7/25/06
•
Chicago Sun Times,
Council set to OK four-year pay raise, 7/25/06
•
Chicago Sun Times,
The "Big Box" Battle, 7/24/06
•
In These Times,
Bigger salaries for Big Box Workers?, 7/24/06
•
Op-Ed: Annette Bernhardt and Nik Theodore,
How large retailers can
be neighborly: paying a living wage and benefits, Chicago Tribune,
6/25/06
Indiana:
Contact Information:
Community, Faith and Labor Coalition
Website:
News:
•
Op-Ed:
Stephanie Salter, When I run the
country, everybody who
wants a job gets a job
•
Letter to Editor: Patti O'Callagan,
Time to celebrate minimum wage,
Journal and Courier, 7/24/07
•
Journal and Courier, Higher
minimum wage in effect today, 7/24/07
•
Community, Faith and Labor Coalition, Success
in Indiana, 5/10/07
•
Courier-Journal (KY),
Indiana ties minimum wage to U.S. rate, 5/5/07
•
Evansville Courier Press,
Dems fear wage bill may get watered down,
4/3/07
Kansas:
Contact Information:
Kansas Action Network
Website:
http://www.raisethewagekansas.org/wichita/
Newsletter: April, 2008 (pdf)
News:
• Letter to the Editor: David Smith, Shameful wage
Lawrence Journal World, 5/8/08
• Op-Ed:
Graham Kreicker,
Take a Stand: Minimum wage is
too low Lawrence Journal World, 4/27/08
•
University Daily Kansan,
Group works for more than just peanuts
4/21/08
•
Lawrence Journal World,
Minimum wage proposal fails 3/21/08
•
Testimony to Kansas Senate Commerce Committee on the
minimum wage Given by Heidi Zeller on behalf of the Kansas
Action Network 2/19/08
•
Kansas State Collegian,
Kansas minimum wage to remain at $2.65
2/29/08
• Lawrence World Journal,
Coalition takes pay battle local: Proponents
of higher state wage look to cities to help workers
2/25/08
• Topeka Capital Journal,
blog on minimum wage, 2/23/08
• The
Capital-Journal, Senate panel
debates merit of raising minimum
wage
2/20/08
• The
Journal-World, Bill proposes
increasing minimum wage in state
2/20/08
• The
Journal-World, Advocates seek
increase in state minimum wage
2/18/08
• The
Capital-Journal, Speaker
recounts King's call for living wage
positive change, 1/22/08
• 27 News CBS, MLK Day Celebrations in
Topeka, 1/21/08
• Op-ed:
Wichita Eagle, Wichita should
establish citywide minimum,
wage 12/23/07
• WIBW TV,
Report shows KS minimum wage increase would be
positive change, 12/10/07
• Parsons Sun,
Local housing needs add up, 10/27/07
• Wichita Eagle Editorial,
Many Wichitans living on the edge, 10/24/07
• Wichita Eagle, A growing hunger,
10/21/07
• Wichita Eagle,
Minimum wage may turn into city issue, 10/19/07
• Eyewitness News 12,
Group wants Kansas to increase minimum
wage, 9/3/07
• Wichita Eagle, Group to city: Raise the
wage, 9/1/07
• The Online Edge (Ellis County, KS) Editorial,
Minimum wage increase
was overdue, 8/2/07
• Glenda Overstreet,
Minimum wage affects all, Topeka Capital
Journal, 7/29/07
• Heidi Zeller,
$2.65 is Peanuts: Raise the Wage in Kansas, UUSC,
Human Rights Weblog, 7/27/07
• AP, Kansas
coalition seeking higher state minimum wage, 7/26/07
•
Wichita Eagle Blog,