LET JUSTICE ROLL 2009 LIVING WAGE DAYS
Please JOIN US in LIVING WAGE DAYS WORSHIP SERVICES AND COMMUNITY EVENTS in 2009 to inspire, educate and mobilize support for raising the minimum wage to a living wage at the local, state and federal level. We invite you to reach out to everyone, including both workers and business people, in your congregations, organizations and communities to participate in Living Wage Days. Raising the minimum wage is good for workers, families, business, communities and our economy.
Please let us know if you can host or co-host a Let Justice Roll LIVING WAGE DAY worship service or event. Sign up below or contact Paul Sherry at or phone 216-571-0819.
Sign-up for Living Wage Days
Resources for Living Wage Worship Services and Community EventsNEW 3rd edition, is a comprehensive tool kit for congregations and community organizations. Contents include:
- 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
A Just Minimum Wage: Good For Workers, Business and Our Future counters all the arguments against raising the minimum wage and offers fresh insight into why the minimum wage is so important. It shows that raising the minimum wage is an economic imperative for the enduring strength of our workforce, businesses, communities and economy, as well as a moral imperative for the very soul of our nation.
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- Download A Just Minimum Wage: Good For Workers, Business and Our Future
Just Neighbors. The newly updated interactive, multimedia Just Neighbors Toolkit is designed to educate congregations about poverty and wages and empower people as advocates. Just Neighbors allows you to walk in the shoes of working families living in poverty and learn how to help. A special discount is available for Let Justice Roll participants. Contact Frank McCann at fmccann@familypromise.org.
1/13/09 Press Release: Growing Number of National Faith Leaders Say Lift Economy by Raising Minimum Wage: Living Wage Events Link MLK Dream to Ending Poverty Wages
Let Justice Roll Living Wage Days January 2009 Event Sampler
Unitarian Universalist Congregations Support Living Wage Days, January 2009
9/27/06 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
Living Wage Days Fall 2006 Event Sampler
Living Wage Days, Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend 2006