Fair Wage Organizations

http://www.stw.org   United for a Fair Economy spotlights the dangerous
consequences of growing wealth inequality.

www.cbpp.org  The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities is a
progressive think-tank analyzing economic issues.

www.livingwagecampaign.org ACORN's site- many links here

http://www.newparty.org/livwag/
The New Party, among the most active progressive third parties, has made
the living wage a central issue in its agenda.

http://www.acorn.org
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), "the
largest community organization in the United States," is one of the most
active progressive organizations on the living wage issue. Their site
contains excellent background, a round-up of all the municipal living
wage ordinances on the books, responses to anti-living wage arguments,
and many links.
 

Living Wage Campaigns at Institutions of Higher Education

http://record.law.harvard.edu/%7Emirarchi/living-wage/
This is the Harvard living wage campaign site.

http://yukiok.soc.jhu.edu/neoslac/lw/front.htm
http://jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/%7Eyk14/SLAC/
This is the Johns Hopkins University Student Labor Action Coalition
(SLAC) site. The JHU SLAC was one of the earliest student groups to get
involved in a campus living wage campaign. They recently occupied their
administration building.

http://web.utk.edu/~hopeutk/
This is the site for the University of Tennessee-Knoxville living wage
campaign.

http://www.stw.org/html/campus_living_wage_manual.html
If you are interested in starting your own campus living wage campaign,
United for a Fair Economy's Campus Living Wage Manual is a good place to
start.

http://epinet.org/
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is another progressive economic
think-tank. They have done research on the economics of living wage
ordinances.
 
 
 

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