Rev. Paul Sherry
Board Member and Founding Director
Let Justice Roll
Washington, DC
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Minimum Wage Buys Less Today Than 1956
- $8.27: 1956
- $10.34:1968
- $7.25: 2011
In 2011 Dollars
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LJR in the News
- Minimum wage jumps to $7.70 an hour today [in Ohio] Sandusky Register
- CEOs to Workers: More for me, less for you McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Beep.... Illinois minimum wage flatlines Chicago Reporter
- Minimum Wage, Labor Investigations Targets Of Missouri Republicans Huffington Post
- Bills could increase wages for local tipped workers The Sentinel (Maryland)
- Religious leaders, labor activists urge [Illinois] minimum wage hike Northwest Indiana Times
- Demonstrators gathered in St. Louis to stand in solidarity with workers in Wisconsin KSDK
- Group Pushes To Increase Minimum Wage WJZ CBS Baltimore
State News
- Minimum wage jumps to $7.70 an hour today [in Ohio] Sandusky Register
- Fair Wages for New Yorkers Campaign
- A Living Wage, Long Overdue New York Times
- In Gilded City, Living Wage Proposal Still Stirs Fears New York Times
- San Francisco to be first city in US history to set minimum wage over $10 San Francisco Examiner
- Eat Ethically - 1st Annual ROC National Diners' Guide 2012
- Business leaders pad pay while cheering plight of low-wage earners St. Louis Post Dispatch
- Four States Announce Minimum Wage Increases National Employment Law Center
- CEOs to Workers: More for me, less for you McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Illinoisans Call for Minimum Wage Increase In These Times