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“A self-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no...economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours. Enlightened business is learning that competition ought not to cause bad social consequences, which inevitably react upon the profits of business itself.”  -- Franklin Roosevelt, “A Fair Day's Pay for a Fair Day's Work,” 1937.

We built this new website to better serve our work to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. We look forward to bringing you new features and improvements in coming weeks.
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On July 24 the federal minimum wage increases from $6.55 to $7.25. Don’t let minimum wage critics dominate public debate.
Write blogs, op-eds, letters to the editor, comments. Call into talk radio.
Find living wage events in Georgia, Tennessee and elsewhere. Tell us about your event.
Recruit business people to sign the Business for a Fair Minimum Wage statement. Nearly 900 signers support the raise to $7.25.
Explain: Raising Minimum Wage in Hard Times.

Raise the Federal Minimum Wage

$10 in 2010 Campaign
More than 500 faith leaders have signed our Faith Leader Letter to Congress in support of $10 in 2010.
Help us reach our goal of faith leaders from every congressional district.
Sign the letter and spread the word.
If you aren't a faith leader, please sign here.
Donate to strengthen the $10 in 2010 Campaign.
Policy Points: Raise the Minimum Wage to $10 in 2010.

Tennessee Living Wage Repeal Defeated; Momentum Builds for Nashville Living Wage

"We only call it a 'recession' or 'depression' when it affects enough people, but many families have been working and living in poverty for too long. It's time we stop accepting poverty wages for anyone. Our work here in Tennessee is an important building block in the campaign to raise the federal minimum wage to $10 in 2010 and assure living wages for all workers."
 -- Megan Macaraeg, Mid TN Jobs with Justice & Let Justice Roll
 

Victory for Raise the Wage Kansas

"Let Justice Roll's state-level successes in 2006 convinced us that we could succeed in Kansas, too. And we hope that others, elsewhere, will draw similar conclusions from our success. It might seem, at first glance, that raising the Kansas minimum wage would have been unusually difficult in the current economic downturn. But actually, this may have helped us, since the needs of vulnerable and low-wage workers became clearer than ever. And raising the minimum wage is a form of economic stimulus." -- David Smith and Heidi Zeller, Kansas Action Network & Let Justice Roll.

Kansas will no longer have the nation's lowest state minimum wage -- a paltry $2.65 for two long decades -- thanks to the Raise the Wage Kansas campaign begun in 2007.

Bill Moyers Talks With Holly Sklar

Watch Holly on Bill Moyers Journal: Are we living the American Dream in reverse?
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With over 100 member organizations, the nonpartisan Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign is the leading faith, community, labor, business coalition committed to raising the minimum wage to a living wage at the state and federal level.