The Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign, a fast-growing partnership of more than 70 faith, labor and community groups working to raise the minimum wage at the state and federal level, invites you to JOIN US in LIVING WAGE DAYS WORSHIP SERVICES AND COMMUNITY EVENTS in OCTOBER. A job should keep you out of poverty, not keep you in it.
Last January, over the Martin Luther King Holiday Weekend, Let Justice Roll sponsored hundreds of Living Wage Days services and events across the country, including Arkansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, where campaigns have already led to legislation increasing state minimum wages. Elsewhere, in Ohio, for example, the more than 65 Living Wage Days events were crucial to building support for the state minimum wage initiative on the ballot this fall.
Now, it's time to take nationwide action again with Let Justice Roll LIVING WAGE DAYS SERVICES AND EVENTS to inspire, educate and mobilize support for raising the minimum wage at the federal and state level as well as local living wage campaigns. Legislative efforts to raise the federal minimum wage are gaining strength and a growing number of states have minimum wage campaigns, including six states with ballot initiatives coming to a vote this November: Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Nevada and Ohio.
We invite you to reach out to everyone, including both workers and business people, in your congregations, organizations and communities to participate in Living Wage Days. Raising the minimum wage is good for workers, families, business and our economy. States that have raised their minimum wage above the federal level have had better employment trends, including among retail and small businesses, than states that have not.
We hope that you will host or co-host a Let Justice Roll LIVING WAGE DAY worship service or event during the weekend of either October 7-8 or October 14-15.
We have a variety of RESOURCES at WWW.LETJUSTICEROLL.ORG to assist you in your preparation for Living Wage Days, including "Resources for Living Wage Weekend Worship Services and Events," which we are updating soon, and "A Just Minimum Wage: Good For Workers, Business and Our Future," which shows that raising the minimum wage is an economic imperative for the enduring strength of our workforce, businesses, communities and economy, as well as a moral imperative for the very soul of our nation.
We hope you will join us for LIVING WAGE DAYS OCTOBER 7-8, OCTOBER 14-15, 2006, as we move toward a living wage for all.
PLEASE LET US KNOW if you are planning to host or co-host an event. You can SIGN UP for Living Wage Days at http://www.letjusticeroll.org/livingwage-signup.html.
