$2.00 a Day – Living on Almost Nothing in America
A call to action, similar to Michael Harrington’s ‘The Other Americans’ achieved in the late 1960’s, arouses the nation’s consciousness and conscience... Read More
A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States
By Robert Pollin, Mark Brenner, Jeannette Wicks-Lim, and Stephanie Luce. Gives an overview of living wage and minimum wage implementation in Louisiana,... Read More
Low Wage Work in the Wealthy World
By Jerome Gautie. Compares the plight of low-wage workers in the United States to five European countries—Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and... Read More
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
By Barbara Ehrenreich. Reveals the lives of people working in low-wage America in all their tenacity, anxiety and surprising generosity. Click here... Read More
Raising Low Level Wages: When and Why It Makes Sense
By Tomas Hellebrandt, Michael Jarand, Jacob Kirkeraard, Tyler Moran, Adam Posen, Justin Wolfers, & Jan Zilinsky. A collection of essays from economists... Read More
Sojourners
Encourages Christians to put their faith into action in the passionate pursuit of social justice, peace, and environmental stewardship through resources like... Read More
The Fight for Fifteen: The Right Wage for Working America
By David Rolf. Combining history, economics, and commonsense political wisdom, makes the case for a national $15/hour minimum wage as the only... Read More
The Minimum Wage The Moral and Economic Argument For A Living Minimum Wage
Argues that the minimum wage is not a handout from the economic market-place; it is a moral obligation of society’s social compact... Read More
The Working Poor: Invisible in America
By David K. Shipler. Narrates the lives of the working poor and their struggles as well as details the failures of society... Read More