Let Justice Roll Resources
Extensive research refutes the claim that increasing the minimum wage causes increased unemployment and business closures.
- Recent minimum wage raises are too little, too late.
- The minimum wage is a poverty wage instead of an anti-poverty wage.
- The minimum wage sets the wage floor. A low minimum wage institutionalizes an increasingly low-wage workforce.
- A low minimum wage reinforces a growing gap between haves and have-nots.
- Workers are also consumers. The long-term fall in worker buying power is one reason we are in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
- Raising the minimum wage lifts workers, business and the economy.
- $10 in 2010 will break the cycle of too little, too late raises.
- $10 in 2010 will make up ground lost in minimum wage buying power since 1968.
- $10 in 2010 will bring us closer to the Fair Labor Standards Act “minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency and general well-being of workers.”
- $10 in 2010 will strengthen the eroded foundation under our families, communities and economy.
- A job should keep you out of poverty, not keep you in it.
- Steps for organizing a living wage service or community event
- Organizing/advocacy tools for minimum wage and living wage
- Readings, prayers and handouts from various faith traditions
- Working Family testimonials and Business Voices
- Sample Op-Eds and Letters to the Editor
- Fact sheets, charts, quotable quotes and much more
Makes a powerful economic and ethical case for raising the minimum wage and moving the United States from a low-road economy to the high road. Counters all the arguments against raising the minimum and offers vital insight into why the minimum wage is so important.