Issue Briefs on Living Wage

FROM THE ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE:

The Living Wage Movement: Pointing the Way Toward the High Road
by Jared Bernstein.  (Originally appeared in Community Action Digest, Spring 1999, Vol. 1, Issue 1)

Choosing the High Road: Businesses That Pay a Living Wage and Prosper
by Karen Kraut, Scott Klinger and Chuck Collins. From Responsible Wealth, a project of United for a Fair Economy.  www.sblivingwage.org

FROM ACORN:

The ERA Report: A Critique, Prepared by Carol Zabin, Chair Center for Labor Research and Education, University of California Berkeley, and Jen Kern, Director National Living Wage Resource Center, Jan. 7, 2003. HTML, PDF

Moving Towards the High Road: A Review of the Proposed Sacramento Living
Wage Ordinance, Jan. 3, 2003, by Nicholas J. Brunick of Business and
Professional People for the Public Interest. HTML, PDF

Noted Economists Endorse Sacramento Living Wage HTML, PDF

A Self-Sufficiency Living Wage for Chicago, September 2002. HTML, PDF

Fulfilling the Promise of the Living Wage: A Review of Potential Improvements to the Chicago Living Wage Ordinance: A Report Performed for the Chicago Jobs and Living Wage Campaign, August, 2002.
Executive Summary, PDF  Full Report, PDF

A Step in the Right Direction: An Analysis of Forecasted Costs and Benefits of the Chicago Living Wage Ordinance, July 2002. HTML, PDF

New Orleans, LA: Economic Analysis of the New Orleans Minimum Wage Proposal, July 1999 (Robert Pollin, Stephanie Luce, Mark Brenner, Univeristy of Massachusetts - Amherst).  Link to Summary of Study, HTML

Higher Wages Lead to More Efficient Service Provision -- The Impact of Living Wage Ordinances on the Public Contracting Process
by Jared Bernstein, 2000.

OTHER LIVING WAGE ISSUE BRIEFS:

The Forgotten Workforce: More Than One in 10 Federal Contract Workers Earn Less Than a Living Wage by Chauna Brocht. November 2000

Campus Living Wage Manual
From United for a Fair Economy.

"Living Wage, Live Action"
By Robert Pollin from The Nation, November 23, 1998.

  "Martha Jernegons' New Shoes"
From The American Prospect, June 19-July 3, 2000.

The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy
by Robert Pollin and Stephanie Luce. 1998. The New Press.

The Policy Shift To Good Jobs: Cities, States, and Counties Attaching Job Quality Standards to Development Subsidies
From Good Jobs First, a project of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

The issue briefs in this package come in large part from the work of ACORN's Living Wage Service Center, the Brennan Center and the Economic Policy Institute.  The Service Center would like to thank these groups for mapping out the high road on the living wage issue.

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