Let Justice Roll in the News

LJR Board Chair Steve Copley Honored as Peace and Justice Hero

Jun 29 2009 Arkansas Peace, Justice and Environment Project

6th Annual Arkansas Peace & Justice Heroes Banquet
Sponsored by: Omni Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology, July 11, 5:30 pm, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 224 North East Street,...

6th Annual Arkansas Peace & Justice Heroes Banquet

Victory for Raise the Wage Kansas

May 1 2009

"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,...

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

Apr 21 2009

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$10 Minimum Wage in 2010?

Talking Points edited by Carolyn M. Brown

Apr 1 2009 Black Enterprise

Raising the federal minimum wage to $10 per hour in 2010 is the latest campaign by Let Justice Roll, a national coalition of religious leaders, community activists, and business organizations. The federal minimum wage--enacted in 1938--increased...

Corporate Executives Overpaid, Undertaxed

Holly Sklar

Feb 13 2009 Distributed by McClatchy Tribune News Service

In today's mad world, underpaid workers are bailing out banks and corporations run by overpaid, undertaxed bosses who milked their companies and our country like cash cows.

While workers across America were losing jobs, homes and health...

National Faith Leaders Call For Lifting Economy By Raising Minimum Wage

Jan 29 2009 Sun Reporter

Washington, DC - The leaders of 11 denominations and national faith organizations are among the inaugural...

UUA President Joins UU Church of Nashua's Living Wage Sunday

Jan 25 2009 UUA.org

The sanctuary of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua, NH, was packed and you could feel the excitement in the air. Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA...

Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Faith leaders call for increase in U.S. 'living wage'

Linda Green

Jan 16 2009 United Methodist News Service

Faith leaders across the United States have joined a national effort to increase the federal minimum wage to $10 by 2010.

The United Methodist Board of Church and Society is among a group representing 11 denominations and national faith...

Presiding Bishop joins faith leaders in call for minimum wage increase

Joe Bjordal

Jan 15 2009 Episcopal News Service

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has joined with leaders of 15 denominations and national faith organizations as an inaugural signer of a...

Hope and Change for Low-Wage Workers

Rev. William G. Sinkford

Jan 14 2009 CommonDreams.org

On March 18, 1968, two weeks before his murder, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. told striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn., "It is criminal to have people working on a full-time basis getting part-time income." He said, "A living wage should...