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?

http://www.lafollette.wisc.edu/livingwage/Final_Report/report.htm#P.S.%20Perspectives%20on%20a%20Living%20Wage

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.