Resources for nurturing families: Advocacy

Today’s minimum wage, stuck at $5.15 since 1997, is keeping families in poverty. Nationally, on average, households need about twice the level of the official poverty line to meet basic expenses. The $5.15 minimum wage — $10, 712 a year full-time — is inadequate for a single person, let alone a family. The following resources address the justice and compassion issues surrounding the need for a living wage in the United States.

Living Wage Campaign

Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an overflowing stream.

The Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign, a nonpartisan program of more than 60 faith-based and community-based organizations including the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), works in support of federal legislation to raise the federal minimum wage and state legislation and ballot initiatives to increase the minimum wage in selected states.

Read more about the campaign and sign up for action alerts at Let Justice Roll.

A Just Minimum Wage: Good for Workers, Business, and Our Future

by Holly Sklar and The Rev. Paul H. Sherry

This resource is produced by the American Friends Service Committee and the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA in support of the Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign. This study paper frames the issue of a work ethic without a wage ethic as a moral imperative that must be addressed.

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