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| | Living wage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Living Wages is part of a set of solutions to counteract the divide and rule strategy used by businesses in an effort to save money and increase their profit margin. | | | In the United States, several municipalities and local governments have enacted ordinances which set a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum for the purpose of requiring all jobs to meet the living wage for that region. | | | In Australia, the 1908 Harvester Judgment ruled that an employer was obliged to pay his employees a wage that guaranteed them a standard of living which was reasonable for "a human being in a civilised community," regardless of his capacity to pay. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_wage
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| | The Living Wage Resource Center: Living Wage Successes |
| | The living wage is defined as 110% of the federal poverty level for a family of four, with a health benefit plan that requires employee to pay no more than 3% of their annual wages. | | | The ordinance requires that a living wage of $8.32 an hour with health insurance, or $9.46 without (7/04), be provided to full time employees of firms contracting with the County (and their subcontractors) for over $25,000 worth of services. | | | The living wage is $13.20, but the employer may deduct any health-care costs from that number. |
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http://www.livingwagecampaign.org/index.php?id=1958
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| | Living Wage EPI |
| | Only a specific set of workers are covered by living wage ordinances, usually those employed by businesses that have a contract with a city or county government or those who receive economic development subsidies from the locality. | | | Most firms will choose to sacrifice some of their profit margins, which are estimated to range from 10% to 20% of production, since wage increases from the ordinance only amount to an estimated 2% of production costs. | | | In addition to setting wage levels, many ordinances also have provisions regarding benefits (such as health insurance and paid vacation), labor relations, and hiring practices. |
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http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/issueguides_livingwage_livingwagefacts
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| | Dennis Kucinich on the Minimum Wage |
| | Putting decent wages in the hands of those who need the money is a far surer way to boost an economy than giving tax breaks to those with more money than they know what to do with. | | | In addition, over 115 cities and counties have passed living wage laws, applying higher wage standards to those working on public contracts or at companies benefiting from public subsidies or, in some cases, to direct government employees. | | | The federal minimum wage is $5.15 and would be over $8.50, had Congress adjusted it for inflation over the past 35 years. |
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http://www.kucinich.us/issues/minimum_wage.php
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| | Making a Living: How the living wage movement prevailed, by Jared Bernstein |
| | Second, research on both contracting and wage mandates suggests that most contractors will be able to absorb the increase in labor costs by some combination of lower profits and efficiency gains. | | | Thus, what little evidence there is shows that living wage ordinances have neither resulted in higher contract costs nor increased taxes at the local level. | | | In 1998, the city of San Jose passed an ordinance requiring service contractors (with contracts of at least $20,000) to pay a living wage of $9.50 an hour with health benefits, or $10.75 if the company does not provide benefits. |
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http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/123/makingaliving.html
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| | The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page |
| | One answer is political: What a shift from income supports to living wage legislation does is to move the costs of income redistribution off-budget. | | | As described in Robert Pollin and Stephanie Luce's new book Living Wage, it essentially involves putting a floor on wages not through a conventional minimum wage law, but by requiring minimum wage standards of firms that do business with a local government. | | | Indeed, only about one-fifth of the mandated increase in wages and benefits actually gets manifested in disposable income; the rest is taken away as benefits decline. |
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http://www.pkarchive.org/cranks/LivingWage.html
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| | RW - Living Wage |
| | While none of these forecasts have come to pass when the minimum wage was increased in the past, the business lobby nonetheless remains a powerful obstacle to raising the wage floor to a decent level. | | | When people are paid enough to support their families, they pay more taxes and buy more goods and services in the local economy, stimulating growth of neighborhood economies. | | | Many business people, investors, and other Americans hold a different view, understanding that paying employees a living wage is good business - creating stronger communities and better customers. |
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http://www.responsiblewealth.org/living_wage
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| | CITY OF SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO |
| | For purposes of calculating the number of workers under this ordinance and identifying persons entitled to be paid the minimum wage, all individuals employed by or providing work to the business for compensation, whether on a part-time, full-time or temporary basis, during a given month shall be counted as a worker. | | | However, the provisions of this ordinance are expressly limited by and subject to future union negotiations in compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act and subsequent appropriations by the governing body in compliance with the Bateman Act; | | | Beginning January 1, 2009, and each year thereafter, the minimum wage shall be adjusted upward by an amount corresponding to the previous year’s increase, if any, in the consumer price index for the western region for urban wage earners and clerical workers |
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http://www.santafelivingwage.org/finalordinance.html
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| | Labor Markets and Living Wages |
| | These measures are a response to the dramatic fall in the national minimum wage over the past 35 years as well as to the increased use of government “outsourcing”—the contracting to the private sector of services traditionally performed by public employees. | | | In this area, PERI is linking the analysis of living wage proposals with broader issues in the labor market for low-wage workers, both in the U.S. and internationally. | | | Mark Brenner is leading a group of researchers examining the interrelationship between living wage laws and the Earned Income Tax Credit program in the United States. |
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http://www.umass.edu/peri/programs/labormarkets/labormarkets.htm
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| | Questions & Answers on the Dane County Living Wage Campaign |
| | A living wage will serve to level the playing field, allowing responsible contractors to compete and discouraging privatization of public sector jobs. | | | Higher wages would increase the tax base and provide more money for government services. | | | We believe that the time has come for local units of government to realize that they should not be perpetuating poverty by paying their employees and the employees of those they do business with wages which fall below the poverty line. |
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http://www.solidarity.com/LivingWage/question.htm
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| | Making a Living in Canada |
| | Campaigns called on local governments to implement living wage ordinances, which require any business that contracts with the municipal government to agree to pay a living wage. | | | Campaign 2000 has built on that to calculate the level of child benefits that would be needed to keep family incomes above the poverty line. | | | Ordinances can also include other workplace standards such as health benefits, overtime and vacation pay, for example. |
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http://www.progress.org/2005/livwag01.htm
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| | Tompkins County Living Wage Coalition & Workers' Rights Center |
| | A Living Wage is the amount of income and resources (such as health insurance) needed for an individual or family to meet its basic needs without public or private assistance. | | | The Living Wage Coalition is now taking applications from businesses, non-profit agencies and local governments for certification as living wage... | | | Without health insurance, a Living Wage would be $10.36/hour (or $21,548.80 for the full year) » Read more |
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http://www.tclivingwage.org
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| | Los Angeles Living Wage Campaign - Fighting for Fair Wages in Our City |
| | L.A. City’s historic living wage ordinance, passed in 1997, set a threshold for such businesses that has raised the living standards of more than 10,000 low-wage workers. | | | By insisting that public money should not be used to subsidize working poverty, living wage advocates in Los Angeles have helped establish a new standard for this city and dozens of others throughout the country. | | | They are calling on lawmakers to amend the county’s living wage ordinance to include annual cost-of-living increases. |
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http://www.laane.org/lw
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| | AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: A Livable Minimum Wage |
| | A full-time worker taking no vacation or holidays and earning the federal minimum wage earns 55 percent of the federal poverty line for a family of four and a much smaller percentage of what it takes to actually pay the rent and basic living expenses in most parts of the country. | | | Three of these 14 (Washington, Oregon and Florida) have indexed their minimum wage levels to automatically increase each year with the cost of living, thus eliminating the need for an annual campaign to prevent the minimum wage from losing value. | | | The voters in Nevada, like those in Florida, passed a minimum wage increase by ballot initiative last November which included indexing to the cost of living, but initiatives in Nevada must be passed twice. |
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http://www.alternet.org/rights/21318
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| | RW - Living Wage: Living Wage Covenant (LWC) |
| | Encourage owners of other firms, including suppliers, to pay their workers a living wage. | | | Begin a dialogue with my investment advisors and mutual fund managers, and with management of companies in which I own stock, in an effort to move company compensation practices toward living wages. | | | Pay my employees a wage that reflects the true cost of living in my community: $_________/hr. |
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http://www.responsiblewealth.org/living_wage/lwc.html
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| | LE REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment: We Need a Living Wage |
| | Stanford and the TD Bank are joined by the right wing business think tank the CD.Howe Institute in their criticism that the tax breaks and priming of the pump by the state in its money give aways to Corporate Canada have not resulted in investments in R&D, technology or even improving working conditions. | | | If there is a productivity decline in Canada its not because of the low waged work force, it is because the capitalists have failed to re-invest their record profits in their business and in its technology, resulting in decline productivity. | | | The result has been that while profits are made, and obscene profits at that, and worker productivity has increased, wages have not. |
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http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2005/05/we-need-living-wage.html
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| | 'Living wage' laws gain momentum across US csmonitor.com |
| | The laws mandate that businesses under contract with the city – or in some cases businesses that receive grants, subsidies, or tax breaks from the city pay employees a wage large enough to lift their families out of poverty. | | | Today, thanks to a "living wage" law requiring city contractors to pay employees a minimum of $8.97 per hour, Ms. | | | New study shows higher incomes from 'living wage' outweigh the cost in job losses. |
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| | MoJo Blog: Living Wage Battles |
| | The eroding purchasing power of wages should be a front-burner issue in these times. | | | The report listed some potential unintended consequences of the wage raise: the exemption in the living-wage law for businesses with fewer than 25 employees, for instance, created "perverse incentives" for owners to keep their payrolls below 25 workers. | | | The report calculates that the cost of living in Santa Fe rose by 9 percent a year over the past two and a half years. |
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http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2006/01/living_wage_bat.html
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| | MPR: "Living Wage" laws at issue in Minneapolis and St. Paul |
| | Paul currently has a living wage resolution that says businesses with city contracts should pay their employees $10.24 per hour. | | | Businesses that provide health insurance would be held to a lower wage of $10.24 per hour. | | | He says he worries that businesses will get fed up with the wage requirements in St. Paul and take their business elsewhere. |
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http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/11/04_helmsm_livingwage
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| | UniversalLivingWage.org--Universal Living Wage Formula |
| | We believe that this format, using already established government guidelines, enables us to utilize existing government formulas to easily justify specific Universal Living Wage figures that are based on the need for housing and are appropriate to each municipality and outlying areas. | | | The second guideline, the Fair Market Rents (FMRs) are established by HUD throughout the country for each municipality and all other areas. | | | Index the minimum wage to the local cost of housing as set each year by the US Department of HUD (Fair Market Rents) |
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http://www.universallivingwage.org/ulwformula.htm
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| | Minimum wage fails to keep up -- Part 2 -- A Portrait of Poverty in Oregon |
| | Living-wage levels were calculated (in 1996 dollars) to include some allowance for savings, taxes, child care, and health care as well as for food, clothing, shelter, and transportation. | | | The calculations provide only a modest standard of living. | | | The food allowance is pegged to the federal government's "Low Cost Food Plan." |
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http://eesc.orst.edu/agcomwebfile/edmat/html/em/em8743/part2/minimumwage.html
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| | Living Wage |
| | Labor turnover has dropped, worker morale has gone up, and the increased payroll costs have not resulted in increased taxes in any of the cities. | | | is simply a local law, passed by city council, that requires the city and companies holding city contracts to pay a "Living Wage" to all employees. | | | Wont this cost the taxpayer, causing taxes to go up? |
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http://www.unf.edu/groups/newleft/livingwage.html
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| | CCFL, Colorado College Fair Labor and Living Wage Campaign |
| | Furthermore, based on our simulation of the CC budget, we believe moving to a living wage within just a few years would be economically viable and make good business sense. | | | In advocating workers' rights, we have caused major changes in college policy, motivating dramatic wage increases, winning the formation of a Labor Practices Committee and causing CC to open bidding on its Sodexho contracts. | | | The Labor Practices Committee, appointed by the college to consider our recommendations, agrees. |
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| | Going Down the Road |
| | But their real tactic was to do all they could to stop the vote, including rushing to the state legislature to ram a bill through that prohibits any city from enacting a minimum wage. | | | These places rake in huge profits from the hundreds of millions of tourist dollars that flow through their doors every year, yet two-thirds of New Orleans service and retail workers are paid poverty wages. | | | Today's miserly minimum of $5.15 an hour delivers a sub-subsistence income of $10,700 a year, if you get full-time work. |
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| | Nov 1999, labor behind the label, living wage report, summary |
| | With very few exceptions, however, company codes of conduct state that a company's suppliers should pay their workers the national minimum wage or the local prevailing wage. | | | Labour costs are reduced not only by relocation but also subcontracting to smaller production units and homeworkers who are paid considerably less than factory workers. | | | It is clear from the testimonies received by Labour Behind the Label that many workers are not earning enough even for their basic needs. |
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http://www.cleanclothes.org/campaign/liwa99-11-1.htm
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| | Living Wage Initiative |
| | Since 1968, the real value of the federal minimum wage and most state minimum wages has eroded by more than 35%. | | | Andrew Elmore, Contract Costs and Economic Development in Living Wage Localities: A Report from Cities and Counties on the Impact of Living Wage Laws on Local Programs (Dec. 10, 2003) | | | Citywide Minimum Wage Laws: A New Policy Tool for Local Governments." (July 5, 2005) |
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http://brennancenter.org/programs/living_wage
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| | Living Wages - Progressive Maryland |
| | Watch WJZ Channel 13 coverage on the long overdue Minimum Wage Increase. | | | - As taxpayers, we have a say in where our money goes: we should be creating living wage, not poverty wage, jobs with our tax dollars. | | | - Instead of paying Maryland workers poverty wages and forcing them to rely on state programs in order to make ends meet, we should pay them a wage that reflects the cost of living and the value of their labor. |
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http://progressivemaryland.org/page.php?id=148
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| | HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE - 'Living Wage' Kills Jobs by Thomas Sowell |
| | What the so-called living wage really amounts to is simply a local minimum wage policy requiring much higher pay rates than the federal minimum wage law. | | | Every one of us would be "unemployable" if our pay rates were raised high enough. | | | Since there have been minimum wage laws for generations, not only in the United States, but in other countries around the world, you might think that we would want to look at what actually happens when such laws are enacted, as distinguished from what was hoped would happen. |
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http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=2291
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| | Let Justice Roll - Raise the Federal Minimum Wage and Increase the Minimum Wage in States |
| | Pennsylvania: Raise the Minimum Wage Coalition: House Passes Minimum Wage Bill, The Senate is Next | | | Busts myths and offers vital insight into why a higher minimum wage is crucial for workers, business and economic progress, and a moral imperative for the very soul of our nation | | | Massachusetts: Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, Minimum wage increase |
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| | Georgia Living Wage Coalition |
| | This bill would provide good jobs for the people of Georgia, and would encourage corporate accountability and fiscal responsibility for those companies that receive state economic development funds. | | | City Councilmember Debi Starnes introduced a proposal to provide annual indexing of City wages to the Consumer Price Index. | | | This will help keep wages in line with the cost of living in Atlanta, a critical measure for low-wage working families. |
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http://www.atlantalivingwage.org
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| | living wage - definition of living wage by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | pay, remuneration, salary, wage, earnings - something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings" | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | A wage sufficient to provide minimally satisfactory living conditions. |
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| | Tides Foundation Living Wage Initiative |
| | Diverse coalitions of community, labor, and faith-based organizations in communities all over the U.S. have won passage of 103 living wage ordinances, requiring private firms contracting with city or county governments to meet certain standards regarding wages and benefits. | | | Initiative has granted over $3 million to over 50 economic justice organizations and coalitions across the country. | | | Given the complexity of the current economic crisis, the Initiative works to support creative, innovative organizing strategies, many of which come from low-wage workers in the informal economy where laborers cannot benefit from a living wage, as well as from "no-wage" workers (i.e. |
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http://www.tidesfoundation.org/living_wage_initiative.cfm
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| | ACORN: Overview |
| | Now, ACORN members are organizing to increase in state and federal minimum wages. | | | ACORN is fighting to raise the national minimum wage, and working to win fair wages in many cities and states. | | | Hard work deserves fair pay: Living wages reward hard work and provide enough income for families to live on--but the current federal mininimum wage of $5.15/hour keeps families poor. |
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http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=2668
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| | Living Wage Action Coalition |
| | Apr 27, 2006 - University closer to paying workers full living wage - "The University Council has appointed members to an ad hoc committee to study the pay and benefits of low-wage University employees..." [read more] | | | Apr 5, 2006 - Living Wage plan passes - "Students overwhelmingly approved a Living Wage Referendum in Tuesday’s Associated Students of Madison elections..." [read more] | | | Apr 15, 2006 - Casteen meets with 17 students in sit-in - "...According to Abby Bellows, a Living Wage Campaign student organizer, no concessions were made by the administration during the meeting..." [read more] |
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http://www.livingwageaction.org
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| | London Citizens |
| | Whether you can offer time, expertise, resources or whatever, your help could make a real difference. | | | Our vision is a city and country where everyone in work is paid enough to provide adequately for themselves and their family. | | | The London Citizens Living Wage Campaign is always looking for people to get involved. |
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http://www.livingwage.org.uk
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| | The Quaker Economist #42 - The Living Wage |
| | To subscribe, at no cost, visit our home page. | | | The Quaker Economist #42 - The Living Wage | | | If they all did, then half of Israel would be populated by Arabs, and we would not be a secure state. |
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http://clq.quaker.org/2002/TQE041-EN-Israel.html
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| | Living Wage |
| | These laws set higher minimum wages for the employees of companies benefiting from public contracts, subsidies, or actions, and in some cases also for direct government employees. | | | ACORN is also working to pass across-the-board minimum-wage increases at the local, state, and federal levels. | | | ACORN is campaigning at the local and state levels to pass living-wage laws. |
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http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=42
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| | TomPaine.com - Living-Wage Politics |
| | While this trend appears to conflict with the national mood, it is actually consistent with the results of the 2004 election in which voters favored Republicans at the federal level but preferred Democrats in the states. | | | In March, the U.S. Senate rejected a minimum wage increase by a vote of 49 to 46. All Democrats voted yes; all but four Republicans voted no. | | | In fact, a higher minimum wage is becoming standard policy across the United States. Sixteen states now set a minimum wage greater than the federal level of $5.15 per hour. By this fall, at least 43 percent of Americans will live in jurisdictions with a minimum wage of $6 or more. |
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http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2005/05/17/livingwage_politics.php
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| | Living wage at opensource encyclopedia |
| | It is similar to the term "minimum wage," but the latter term does not necessarily require the fullfillment of any objective requirement. | | | Living wage, by definition, is a wage level that provides basic requirements to a worker. | | | However, minimum wage could be non-existant because there wasn't a law. |
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http://www.wiki.tatet.com/Living_wage.html
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| | Campus Living Wage Project - Interviews with Student Activists, Organizers, and Researchers |
| | If you're involved in campus organizing, or are interested in activism and labor rights on campuses, these interviews are a good place to learn more. | | | Students across the United States have organized "living wage" campaigns to improve the wages and rights of low-wage campus employees. | | | You can also download all the interviews as part of a report on campus living wage campaigns for easy reading and printing. |
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| | MWBE |
| | The additional resource links below will open a new browser window. | | | The contractors currently bound by the Living Wage ordinance and contractors disbarred as a result of non-compliance with the Living Wage ordinance will be listed here. | | | * Please contact La Queta Russell-Taylor, M.S., M.A., at the Certification and Compliance Office 314-551-5048, if there is a need to have the Living Wage Rate Bulletin translated into another language other than English. |
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