Excerpt: Those who have spent time inside Occupy camps know them as secular. But Rev. Stephen Copley, chairman of Let Justice Roll, a coalition pushing to raise the U.S. minimum wage (currently $7.25/hr), says the...
Let Justice Roll in the News
Sep 16 2012
Toronto Star
Sep 3 2012
Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The minister who heads the Arkansas Interfaith Alliance says concern for the poor should prompt Congress to pass an increase in the minimum wage.
The Rev. Stephen Copley says the current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour...
Sep 3 2012
Forbes
On Labor Day 1978, I started my first minimum wage job, making $2.65 an hour at the local supermarket stocking shelves and bagging groceries, and driving a battered Buick Skylark to work after school that fall with Darkness on the Edge of Town...
Sep 3 2012
Institute for Public Accuracy
Rev. Stephen Copley,
Director of the Arkansas Interfaith Alliance and chairman of the national nonpartisan Let Justice Roll Living Wage Coalition, Copley said: “Our motto at Let Justice Roll is ‘A job should keep you out of poverty, not keep...
Sep 1 2012
Disciples News Service
On June 15, Rev. Jennifer Hope Kottler of The Park (Park Avenue Christian Church, NY) spoke out in support of an increase in New York state's minimum wage and emceed a press conference.
A group of clergy, elected...
Aug 31 2012
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
Reform Jewish Voice of New York State is excited to announce our first annual Advocacy Month! In previous years, we have provided resources and asked congregations to set aside a Shabbat...
Jul 24 2012
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Time flies when you're moving backward. With the federal minimum wage stuck at $7.25 an hour since July 24, 2009, workers now have less buying power than they did in 1997 at the start of the longest period in history without a raise.
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Jul 23 2012
Institute for Public Accuracy
Excerpt: Ariel Jacobson is senior associate in the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee’s Economic Justice Program...
Jun 4 2012
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Massachusetts led the nation when it passed the first state minimum wage law a hundred years ago on June 4, 1912. Today, it is a laggard.
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Feb 20 2012
New York Times Upfront
Excerpt: Holly Sklar of Let Justice Roll, a group working to raise the minimum wage, says that the decline in the value of those paychecks keeps the rest of the economy from flourishing.
"You can't really have a...
