Links
Here is a collection of key links related to the living wage campaigns. There are countless others that you can search but I thought this was more than enough to get you started.
http://www.afscme.org/livingwage/
This is one of the labor pages interested in living wage.
http://www.loyno.edu/twomey/blueprint/blueprint-May2001.htm
An argument in favor of living wage written from a faculty member of a Jesuit College.
http://www.epinet.org/index.html
This think tank tends to have a more liberal bent and it favors a living wage.
http://www.livingwagecampaign.org/
This is ACORN's site. ACORN is a collection of community organizers who have pushed for this around the country at the grassroots level.
http://www.epionline.org/livingwage/whatlivingwage.html
This site is the think tank of the restaurants association of america. Do you think they would favor a living wage?
This was the report from a symposium they had on campus regarding a living wage. It was very thorough and included religious and ethical teaching regarding it.
http://www.responsiblewealth.org/living_wage/
Not all business leaders are against the living wage.
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/other/jhodes/living_wage/index.htm
I thought Swarthmore's development of a web site for this issue on their campaign was a good idea and we might want to think about the same.
http://home.twcny.rr.com/clarkrupert/LivingWage%20home.htm
This is the web site for Syracuse's Living Wage campaign.
http://www.prospect.org/print/V11/15/moberg-d.html
An article about the development of the living wage movement
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~pslm/livingwage/portal.html
This is Harvard's web site.
http://www.ufenet.org/activist/tools/campus_manual/index.html
This is a manual that United for a Fair Economy put together for campuses interest in a living wage campaign.
http://www.universallivingwage.org/
This site represents an interest at the national level rather than the local level.
http://www.nikewages.org/livingwage.html
This site focuses on Nike, but it has quotes from Catholic Social Teaching.