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| LIVING WAGE |
| The 2003 HHS Poverty Guidelines Department of Health |
| The Living Wage Movement: Pointing the Way Toward the High Road Despite a surging economy, many low-income working families continue to struggle. Their average income, adjusted for inflation, is 11% lower than it was in 1979, and, at $14,900 in 1997, was about $1,300 below that year's poverty line for a two-parent family with two children. Living Wage |
| Manufacturing Strategic Planning St. Louis Economic Conversion Project believes it essential to strengthen our manufacturing base. Light manufacturing firms often serve the community as neighborhood anchors. They provide jobs that pay a living wage and they generate direct and indirect employment, from purchase of parts to lunch counter patronage. Management support and training is one method to shore up our industrial foundation. Living Wage |
| Universal Living Wage Formula "We have devised a National formula that is based on each local economy throughout the entire United States. The formula is designed in such a manner that no matter whether you are in Austin, Boston, or L.A., if you are willing and able to work a 40 hour week, you should at least be able to afford the cheapest form of housing. Living Wage |
| Introduction to ACORN's Living Wage Web Site Welcome to ACRON's living wage website. What you will find here is a brief history of the national living wage movement, background materials such as ordinance summaries and comparisons, drafting tips, research summaries, talking points, and links to other living wage-related sites. Living Wage ACORN |
| United We Stand! We must work relentlessly to preserve and promote the "American Dream". We must ensure that every working American is paid a Fair Living Wage. Universal Living Wage |
| Labor Markets and Living Wages This program examines the causes and consequences of rising wage inequality and declining living standards for low-wage workers. To date, the focus of our work has been the United States. But we are also developing research programs that examine these questions for other countries as well, including South Africa. PERI |
| HOUSING THE HOMELESS HTH are the initials for Housing the Homeless, Inc.. This is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in Austin, Texas and formed in 1989. Its stated mission is Education and Advocacy around issues that cause and prevent homelessness. Universal Living Wage |
| Living Wage, Live Action By Robert Pollin This past summer, security workers at LAX airport in Los Angeles began their first-ever union organizing drive. They were motivated, labor activists say, by the city's foot-dragging in implementing a living-wage ordinance that had passed the previous year and guaranteed a minimum of $7.25 an hour (rising with inflation every July 1), plus health benefits and twelve I paid days off. Third World Traveler |
| A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society By Lawrence B. Glickman. Lawrence Glickman has written a fascinating book which straddles the borders of several sub disciplines of American history, particularly labor history, intellectual and cultural history, and economic history. A Living Wage treats the history of an idea: H-Net Reviews |
| Responses to Common Anti-Living Wage Arguments Everywhere these living wage campaigns arise, businesses are there to fight them. It will be no different in Philadelphia. You will hear the same arguments here as we've heard whenever wages raises are proposed: Businesses will leave town, businesses will pass on their labor cost to the city and/or consumers, businesses will employ fewer people, less skilled employees will be hurt, etc. None of these arguments have proven true, year the business lobby continues to present them as fact. Acorn |
| Who Was Poor in 2001? FAQ's National poverty data are calculated using the official Census definition of poverty, which has remained fairly standard since it was introduced in the 1960's and is useful for measuring progress against poverty. Under this definition, poverty is determined by comparing pretax cash income with the poverty threshold, which adjusts for family size and composition. In 2001, according to the official measure, 11.7 percent of the total U.S. population lived in poverty (Table 1). FAQ |
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