Washington, D.C., -- The Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign is calling on the House of Representatives to represent the people by voting to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 to at least $7.25 an hour
A fast-growing partnership of more than 70 major national and state faith and community groups, the Let Justice Roll Campaign said the defeat of the Kennedy Amendment Wednesday in the U.S. Senate is "morally reprehensible."
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Washington, D.C., -- The Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign, a fast-growing program of more than 70 faith and community groups, is strongly urging members of Congress to value workers and their families by giving them a much needed raise
This week, Senators can show they care about the nation's poorest workers by supporting the Kennedy Amendment to the Department of Defense appropriations bill, which would increase the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., -- Working families in Arkansas won a resounding victory today when a $1.10 an hour increase in the state minimum wage was signed into law by Gov. Mike Huckabee. A community and faith coalition led by a United Methodist pastor played a key role in persuading lawmakers to enact the increase. The Rev. Stephen Copley and the coalition he leads, Give Arkansas A Rai$e Now, is an affiliate of the Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign, a national interfaith and community initiative for a living wage.
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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
UUA President Sinkford preaches on raising minimum wage in San Diego
...Washington, D.C., —“A job should keep you out of poverty, not keep...
November 7, 2005
Dear Members of Congress:
As leaders of our respective faith communities, we call on Congress to raise the federal minimum wage in the 109th session. For too long, the ranks of the working poor have grown in this country. For too long, low-wage workers have been unable to support themselves and their families, even though they work several jobs, trying to make ends meet. Poverty has become a disease, striking at the very heart of the United States, attacking the most...
