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Kennedy Keynotes Greater Boston Living Wage Event

Quincy Sun, Jan 19 2006
US Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) was the keynote speaker for the greater Boston area's January 16 Martin Luther King Day celebration in support of a living wage. The event, which was part of the "Let Justice Roll" Living Wage Day campaign across the US, was held at United First Parish Church Unitarian in Quincy, Massachusetts. Also in attendance were US Cong. William Delahunt (D-MA), State Senator Michael W. Morrisey, State Rep. Bruce J. Ayers, State Rep. Shirley Owens-Hicks, Quincy City Council President Douglas S.

Faith and Community Groups Hold “Living Wage Days” Events Across Nation to Honor MLK Birthday With Urgent Call To Raise the Minimum Wage

Jan 13 2006

Sen. Kennedy joins religious leaders at “Church of the Presidents” in Quincy, Mass.

Rev. Dr. James Forbes Jr. preaches on MLK and living wage at Riverside Church, NY

King would tell Congress to value workers

Op-ed by Holly Sklar
Cox News Service, Jan 13 2006

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on the brink of the Great Depression and died fighting for the right of workers to earn a decent living.
 
On March 18, 1968, days before his murder, King told striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn., "It is criminal to have people working on a full-time basis…getting part-time income." King said, "We are tired of working our hands off and laboring every day and not even making a wage adequate with daily basic necessities of life."
 

God Says Raise the Minimum Wage, According to Teddy Kennedy

By Amanda B. Carpenter
Human Events, Nov 8 2005
Yesterday, at the release of a new national grassroots campaign to raise the minimum wage spearheaded by religious leaders, Sen

National Council of Churches Urges An Increase in The Minimum Wage

By Chuch Currie Blog
Nov 7 2005
Podcast Interview With Bob Edgar

Religious Leaders Letter to Congress

Nov 7 2005

November 7, 2005

Dear Members of Congress:

Group of religious leaders joins supporters of minimum wage increase

WIS-TV, Nov 7 2005
(Washington, D.C.) Despite recent rejections by Congress, attempts to raise the minimum wage are being revived.

A coalition of church groups is pressing Congress to increase the federal minimum wage, calling the treatment of America's lowest paid workers a moral outrage.

Rev. Bob Edgar of the National Council of Churches, "We believe a job should keep you out of poverty, not keep you in poverty."

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