September 16, 2012 - Mayor Bloomberg, always the optimist, thinks that New York is better off today than it was four years ago. Read more.

September 7, 2012 - Mayor Michael Bloomberg sued the City Council to try to stop a "Living Wage Law," that construction and building service workers be paid prevailing wages. Read more.

June 29, 2012 - The City Council approved an on-time, balanced budget of $68.5 billion on Thursday – and flexed its legislative muscle in overriding the mayor’s veto of two laws aimed at low-wage workers and the city’s banking sector. Read more.

June 29, 2012 - The City Council approved both a $68.5 billion budget for the next fiscal year and an override of Mayor Bloomberg's veto of the living wage Thursday. NY1's Courtney Gross filed the following report. Read more.

June 29, 2012 - “Yes! Yes! Yes! Come, come, ready?” Councilwoman Tish James hurriedly exclaimed when we started to ask her about today’s Supreme Court ruling on health care reform before a rally celebrating the vote on living wage legislation coming later today Read more.

June 29, 2012 - The Council voted 46-5 for the measure, which would boost pay to $11.50 an hour, or $10 with benefits, for workers at companies that receive $1 million or more in city subsidies. Read more.

June 29, 2012 - As expected, the New York City Council voted Thursday evening to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg's veto of a measure that would raise the minimum wage of employees of some companies that receive public subsidies to $11.50 an hour, or $10 an hour with ben Read more.

June 29, 2012 - NEW YORK — The New York City Council has voted to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg's veto of a living wage bill. Read more.

June 29, 2012 - NEW YORK -- The New York City Council voted Thursday to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg's veto of a living wage bill. Read more.

June 29, 2012 - At a press conference on the steps of City Hall this morning, advocates for the “living wage” bill celebrated the New York City Council’s expected override Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s veto of the legislation this afternoon. Read more.

June 29, 2012 - The City Council last night overrode Mayor Bloomberg’s veto of a “living-wage bill” that mandates private companies taking taxpayer subsidies to increase workers’ salaries. Read more.

June 28, 2012 - Nearly 100 New Yorkers from coalitions across the city stood on the steps of City Hall this afternoon to claim victory for the Living Wage Bill. Read more.

June 28, 2012 - Activists supporting the bill plan rally outside City Hall Thursday, while inside, City Council is expected to override the Mayor's veto Read more.

June 28, 2012 - At a press conference on the steps of City Hall this morning, advocates for the “living wage” bill celebrated the New York City Council’s expected override Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s veto of the legislation this afternoon. Read more.

June 9, 2012 - New York's mayor enjoys a reputation as a liberal centrist, but his record shows the iron fist of a free-market fundamentalist Read more.

June 1, 2012 - As vowed, Mayor Bloomberg vetoed the controversial “living wage” bill, slamming it as a measure that will cripple local businesses. Read more.

February 18, 2012 - A campaign calling for higher pay for some of the University of Virginia's lowest paid employees is ramping up their demands. Read more.

February 17, 2012 - A TRADE union is calling on a schools cleaning contractor to pay their workers the same wage as North Ayrshire Council. Read more.

February 17, 2012 - CITY HALL — After long negotiations, the Planning Commission secured a living wage provision for a new luxury hotel, one that potentially sets a precedent for future hotel development in the city. Read more.

February 16, 2012 - Cleaners formed a noisy and lively picket outside the new St Pancras International Station today, Thursday. Read more.

February 16, 2012 - County Manager Barbara Donnellan has proposed a 3-percent rise in the minimum hourly rate paid under the county government’s “living wage” ordinance. Read more.

February 15, 2012 - New York faith leaders gathered at a Harlem church on Wednesday to celebrate what they call a victory in their battle for "living wage" legislation. Odyssey Networks has been following this story since it emerged in May 2011 and had an inside track to the Read more.

February 15, 2012 - I write this with a heavy heart. As we all know Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was in Memphis fighting for economic justice when he was assassinated. He believed we could pull people out of poverty with a living wage and dignity. Read more.

February 10, 2012 - Members of the City Council are being urged to pass the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, which could give workers an hourly wage of $11.50. Read more.

February 9, 2012 - The concept of a earning a wage to adequately support yourself and your family, enjoy a comfortable lifestyle and one not defined by the threat of poverty, is arguably an intrinsic want for every individual in Britain today. Read more.

February 9, 2012 - Panellists at the first “Permanent People’s Tribunal” on wages and conditions for Cambodian garment workers yesterday released their findings, declaring that a living wage for workers should be considered a “human right”. Read more.

February 8, 2012 - Students and faculty are teaming up with the living wage campaign to sent a strong message to University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan. Supporters rallied and listed their demands in front of the president's office at Madison Hall on grounds Wedne Read more.

February 8, 2012 - Jean Rimmer fought back tears as she spoke of the conflict between work and family life that she encounters while working multiple jobs, one of which is a University of Memphis custodian Read more.

February 7, 2012 - This Monday, the Jesus College Student Union followed Emmanuel, in passing a motion calling for all college employees to be paid at least the living wage. Read more.

February 7, 2012 - One of the architects of New Labour has thrown his weight behind a student campaign to give Cambridge University and college staff a ‘living wage’. Read more.

February 6, 2012 - Last week, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) introduced a bill that would raise New York’s minimum wage 17 percent, from $7.25 to $8.50 an hour. Read more.

February 6, 2012 - Garment and footwear workers began testifying yesterday at a “people’s tribunal” on working conditions and wages organised by a regional advocacy alliance that aims to establish a “living wage” for garment workers in Asia. Read more.

February 4, 2012 - Kevin Stewart, SNP MSP for Aberdeen Central, has welcomed the introduction of the living wage of £7.20 per hour by Aberdeen City Council. Read more.

February 3, 2012 - The number of living wage employers is growing in B.C. and local proponents hope to bring it to District 69. Read more.

February 3, 2012 - The dismissal of 12 airport bookstore employees at O'Hare Airport has renewed the push for a "Stable Jobs, Stable Airports" living wage ordinance. Read more.

February 2, 2012 - Like already happening in many communities across Canada and the United States, we need to start having a dialogue about “why is it that people are doing what they should be doing by getting a job and working full-time, yet on pay day, they can’t even aff Read more.

February 2, 2012 - $15 Minimum Wage Would Help Inequality, Stimulate Economy Read more.

February 2, 2012 - Front of house and hospitality staff working at the National Theatre are being consulted on a new pay deal that would ensure they are all paid the London living wage. Read more.

February 2, 2012 - Students and community leaders spoke yesterday afternoon at a rally on the Rotunda steps to celebrate “The Real Legacy of Martin Luther King” and emphasize the importance of continuing King’s fight against economic injustice. Read more.

February 1, 2012 - Albany lawmakers are considering raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50 an hour making it the third highest rate in the country. Read more.

February 1, 2012 - A Royal City resident is questioning whether everyone working on the city's future civic centre is earning the living wage. Read more.

February 1, 2012 - Over one million New Yorkers who barely survive now on minimum wage, could soon catch a breather. Read more.

January 31, 2012 - We were happy to read your recent all-campus email describing your anticipation for the semester ahead. We too feel an exhilarating mix of trepidation for the future and enthusiasm for the potential held in the present. Read more.

January 31, 2012 - Illinois faith leaders are headed to Springfield this morning to call on legislators to raise the minimum wage. The religious leaders and members of the Raise Illinois coalition boarded an Amtrak train today to go to the state capitol to hold a press conf Read more.

January 31, 2012 - House Speaker Chris Donovan and Democratic lawmakers want to raise the minimum wage by $1.50 per hour over the next two years, then index it to rise with the cost of living. Read more.

January 30, 2012 - “I strongly support Speaker Sheldon Silver, Assembly Member Keith Wright and the entire New York State Assembly in their proposal to raise the State’s minimum wage to $ 8.50 an hour. If passed, this bill will represent a positive step towards changing the Read more.

January 29, 2012 - Assembly Democrats Monday will propose a hike in the minimum wage to $8.50 an hour, the Daily News has learned. Read more.

January 29, 2012 - The Occupy Wall Street encampment at Zuccotti Park is no more, but the focus it brought to income inequality is having an impact in Albany and beyond. Read more.

January 29, 2012 - The Occupy Wall Street movement has brought the growing issue of income inequality to the forefront of public discourse in hundreds of cities and towns across the country. Nevertheless, many are still wondering what specific changes the movement is demand Read more.

January 28, 2012 - Almost all Cambridge colleges are not paying living wages to all of their staff, Freedom of Information requests have revealed. Read more.

January 27, 2012 - (Reuters) - When Santa Fe's minimum wage rises to $10.29 an hour on March 1, the New Mexico capital will have the highest local wage requirement in the country, according to the National Employment Law Project. Read more.

January 27, 2012 - Workers who clean Eurostar trains and stations in the UK have voted to go on strike in a row over pay. Read more.

January 27, 2012 - The Planning Commission stalled a development agreement for a new hotel Wednesday night amid concerns that the public had not yet had a chance to review information about a controversial living wage provision that became available just before the hearing. Read more.

January 27, 2012 - Caterpillar Inc. owns and operates Progress Rail in Muncie, which builds diesel and electric locomotives. Read more.

January 26, 2012 - $7.25 per hour has been the minimum wage in New York since 2004. Over the past eight years, low-wage workers across the state have seen their cost of living increase and the price of basic necessities like food and shelter jump. However, wages have stagna Read more.

January 26, 2012 - The Thai Labour Solidarity Committee plans mass gatherings of workers throughout the country to pressure the government to immediately raise the daily minimum wage to 300 baht nationwide, TLSC chairman Chalee Loysoong said on Thursday. Read more.

January 25, 2012 - Nova Scotia Boosts Minimum Wage by 1.5 Per Cent to $10.50 an Hour Read more.

January 25, 2012 - Imagine your wages frozen for two decades at $2.13 per hour. No, I am not talking about a Third World sweatshop. The kid who put your groceries in the car, the waitress who served you dinner at your favorite restaurant last week, the guy or girl who vacuu Read more.

January 25, 2012 - First and foremost, with respect to the so-called "bailout" that Chrysler received in 2008, let's understand and educate the public at large (something I assumed a newspaper would like to do). This was a high- interest loan, 12 per cent in fact, that our Read more.

January 24, 2012 - HONOLULU — A bill moving through the state Legislature could increase Hawaii's minimum wage for the first time since 2007, but opinions are mixed as to whether elevating the wage floor would help or hinder Hawaii's economic recovery. Read more.

January 23, 2012 - San Jose State University students have parlayed a class assignment on social justice into a potential ballot measure that could affect tens of thousands of San Jose workers, by raising the minimum wage 25 percent to $10 an hour. Read more.

January 23, 2012 - The shimmering steel and glass of Canary Wharf bear testament to the financial centre's opulence. But while billions of pounds pour through its banks each day, it is also the workplace of some of the country's lowest paid workers – who are now demanding a Read more.

January 21, 2012 - A reignited push to increase New York's minimum wage is already being met with resistance from business groups, who say a raise could mean less jobs for state residents. Read more.

January 21, 2012 - Those people who run these Govt. programs like Dept. of Social Services fail to tell you that there is an application process. If you qualify you are put on a budget which is guideline approved by Govt. Read more.

January 20, 2012 - Last week, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) announced that a deal had been struck, amending New York City's living wage law to include more city residents. This is a meaningful step Read more.

January 20, 2012 - While Gov. Christie is pitching tax cuts for all in 2012, Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver (D., Essex) wants to give a boost to the 40,000 New Jerseyans who make the $7.25 hourly minimum wage. Read more.

January 20, 2012 - Letitia James, City Council Member from District 35 in Brooklyn, discusses the living wage bill, paid sick leave and other City Council issues. Read more.

January 19, 2012 - Stuart Appelbaum, President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, On the Living Wage Bill Read more.

January 19, 2012 - St John’s College is set to raise the wages of scouts following a decision made in its governing body at the end of last term. Read more.

January 19, 2012 - Hundreds of thousands of workers at the big four grocers are not paid a living wage, claims study Read more.

January 19, 2012 - Santa Fe city officials announced its minimum wage will increase to $10.29 per hour on March 1. Read more.

January 18, 2012 - The City of North Vancouver will continue to explore the possibility of becoming a "living wage employer," despite both of the North Shore's other municipalities expressing no interest in the idea. Read more.

January 17, 2012 - Retail workers across New York are stuck with low wages, subpar benefits and erratic schedules, but Bronx workers have it the worst, a new study claims. Read more.

January 17, 2012 - Instead of marching from Pick-Staiger Hall to Sodexo's food services office as originally scheduled on Monday afternoon, members of the Living Wage Campaign met to discuss their most recent success and to plan for the upcoming quarter. Read more.

January 17, 2012 - Islington is one of England's most deprived boroughs, with a huge divide between rich and poor – but it has committed to paying and promoting the London living wage Read more.

January 13, 2012 - City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Councilman Oliver Koppell and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. announced a compromise on living wage legislation on Jan. 13. Read more.

January 13, 2012 - “I am extremely happy that we have reached an agreement on the ‘Fair Wages for New Yorkers’ Act, and that this important bill will finally see a vote in the City Council. Read more.

January 13, 2012 - In May, the minimum wage in B.C. will climb from $9.50 to $10.25, the highest in the nation, sparking debate about its impact on individuals, businesses and the economy at large Read more.

January 12, 2012 - If Mayor Bloomberg hoped that his announcement today that he was backing Shelly Silver’s push to raise the minimum wage would de-fang the coalition pushing a living wage for New York City, he was wrong. Read more.

January 12, 2012 - The Jewish Labor Committee, which is headed by Stuart Appelbaum, is hosting their annual dinner as labor makes their big push for living wage legislation. Mr. Appelbaum is also the President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). Read more.

January 11, 2012 - Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver said Monday that one of her top legislative priorities this year will be raising New Jersey’s minimum wage, from $7.25 an hour — the lowest allowable by federal law — to $8.50 an hour. It’s long overdue. Read more.

January 10, 2012 - Members of the Living Wage Campaign filled a Kresge classroom Monday night in an "emergency meeting" to discuss reduced hours for some dining hall workers. Read more.

January 9, 2012 - Longview, Washington has become ground zero for one of the most important battles in both the labor and Occupy movements. In this small town on the southwestern coast of Washington, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is engaged in a cr Read more.

January 7, 2012 - Trade unionists campaigning for a London living wage for cleaners at Canary Wharf have complained of a “disrepect of civil liberties” after being ejected from the Wharf as they distributed leaflets on Thursday. Read more.

January 6, 2012 - Brooklyn Brewery president Steve Hindy today endorsed the "living wage" bill, saying that, "workers who benefit from this legislation will put their pay increase right back into the local economy." Read more.

January 6, 2012 - Steve Hindy, president of the Brooklyn Brewery, has endorsed the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, which establishes minimum salaries of at least $10 for businesses and developers receiving $1 million or more in discretionary subsidies from the city. Read more.

January 6, 2012 - Pressure is mounting on City Council Speaker Christine Quinn — a 2013 mayoral hopeful — to take a stand on a living-wage bill that would mandate higher pay for employees of companies receiving major city subsidies. Read more.

January 6, 2012 - The minimum wage has been around since the 1890s when New Zealand enacted the first law. The minimum wage became law in the United States in 1938, when Americans recognized the need to provide an incentive for the unemployed to seek work and lift themselv Read more.

January 4, 2012 - As of January 1, 2011, San Francisco's minimum wage went up from $9.92 to $10.24, which now makes it the nation's highest. California state's federal minimum wage is $8 -- that means San Franciscans are paid 28 percent more than minimum-wage workers in ot Read more.

January 4, 2012 - In a recent blog post on the “value” of running government like a business, I had some fun pretending to agree with the mantra that government decisions are best made with a “business orientation.” Read more.

January 4, 2012 - A list of best wishes as 2012 rings in Read more.

January 3, 2012 - For Canal Side Community Alliance members, the idea that subsidized businesses should pay living wages continues to be an imperative. Read more.

January 3, 2012 - The 22nd annual People's State of the State rally, sponsored by the Hunger Action Network of New York State, took place in Academy Park outside the Capitol on Jan. 3rd, with members of the New York State United Teachers, the Public Employee's Federation, Read more.

January 3, 2012 - But there is lot more to do in 2012 to ensure that New Yorkers are receiving the services they need to succeed. Here are a few of the tasks: Read more.

January 3, 2012 - Contrary to the opinion that we’re headed for a consumer-led recovery in 2012, most economic analysts see little movement on consumer spending. Read more.

January 2, 2012 - Florida minimum-wage earners got a 36-cent raise Sunday when the 2012 rate increased from $7.31 to $7.67 an hour. Read more.

January 2, 2012 - The minimum wage has been raised to $7.64 in Colorado, a move that will be welcomed by some 74,000 minimum wage workers in the Centennial State. Read more.

January 2, 2012 - Action Alert Update: Close the Gender Wage Gap for Retail Workers in NYC Read more.

January 1, 2012 - A decade of hard graft by Living Wage campaigners has forced employers to recognise that higher salaries boost productivity Read more.

January 1, 2012 - San Francisco is known for its love-it-or-hate-it, cutting-edge firsts, and this one's no exception. Today it will be the first city in the nation where the minimum hourly wage will top $10. San Francisco Chronicle Read more.

January 1, 2012 - Ohio's minimum wage increases 30 cents today, to $7.70 an hour. Read more.

December 30, 2011 - On January 1, the minimum wage in San Francisco will cross the psychological threshold of $10 an hour. An automatic cost-of-living adjustment built into city law will raise the wage floor 3.2 percent, from its current $9.92 to $10.24. Read more.

December 29, 2011 - The Bureau of Labor Statistics defines the working poor as " people who has spent 27 weeks in the past year either working or looking for work whose income is below the poverty level." Read more.

December 28, 2011 - Councilman Oliver Koppell’s controversial Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act never made it to the City Council floor for a vote this year, but there was still plenty of action. Read more.

December 28, 2011 - Last week, Community Board 1, serving Lower Manhattan, joined four other local community boards in supporting the Living Wage Bill, or Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act. Read more.

December 28, 2011 - The "living wage" bill currently being debated in the New York City Council may get a boost soon, according to sources who tell City & State that "one or more" City Council members are going to announce their support for the legislation "in the coming day Read more.

December 28, 2011 - In an editorial printed on Christmas day, the New York Times endorsed the controversial living wage bill that’s been lingering in the City Council for nearly two years–the second major endorsement the legislation’s received this month. Read more.

December 28, 2011 - On Jan. 1 the city’s minimum wage will rise to $10.24 an hour. That’s the highest rate in the country and makes San Francisco the first place in the U.S. to mandate double-digit hourly wages for its lowest-paid workers. Read more.

December 27, 2011 - Statement from Borough President Diaz RE: The New York Times Endorsement of 'Living Wage' Read more.

December 27, 2011 - Self-anointed King of the 1%, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is currently trying to defeat the “Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act” that is currently before City Council. Read more.

December 27, 2011 - TUCSON - According to the Industrial Commission of Arizona, minimum wagers will be getting a four percent minimum wage increase starting January 1st. Read more.

December 25, 2011 - New York City provides hundreds of millions of dollars a year in taxpayer-financed subsidies to private developers. It is only right that the jobs created by those projects pay a decent wage. The Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, widely known as the living- Read more.

December 23, 2011 - While the City Council continues to haggle over whether or not to pass the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, also known as the living wage bill, a recent Quinnipiac University poll indicates that nearly 85 percent of Black voters believe that the bill is a Read more.

December 23, 2011 - The holiday season brings good news to 1.4 million low-wage workers in eight states. On the first day of January, these workers will see their income getting a modest boost as a result of state laws that require the minimum wage to keep up with inflation. Read more.

December 22, 2011 - Sichuan province in southwest China has increased the minimum wage sharply to try and attract workers amid a rapidly rising cost of living. Read more.

December 21, 2011 - FIRMS taking on Scottish Government contracts could face requirements to pay their staff the living wage, if it is permissible under EU regulations. Read more.

December 20, 2011 - United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew sent a letter to all 51 members of the City Council asking them to support the “Fair Wages For New Yorkers Act,” better known as the “Living Wage Bill.” Read more.

December 20, 2011 - We begin downtown, where Goldman Sachs, that exemplar of 0.001 percent America, reaps a multimillion-dollar tax break for its office tower, a deal accompanied by a multimillion-dollar landscaping clause. (You expected Lloyd C. Blankfein to yank weeds, may Read more.

December 19, 2011 - San Francisco’s minimum wage rises to $10.24, making San Francisco the first city in America to have the highest minimum wage salary. This wage increase will begin on January 1, 2012, to start the New Year off with a higher salary for its employees. Read more.

December 17, 2011 - Lilia Martinez is happy to clean offices, cook in a restaurant, look after children — you name it. Read more.

December 16, 2011 - The city of San Francisco in California will usher in a landmark move with a $10 minimum wage starting January 1, 2012, making it the first city in the United States paying such amount, the Asian Journal said. Read more.

December 16, 2011 - On a cold afternoon, a crowd of Living Wage NYC Coalition supporters lined up outside the downtown Emigrant Savings Bank Building, picket signs in hand, to enter a City Council hearing on the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act. Read more.

December 15, 2011 - IF you think New York City is where its happening, think again, one of the most expensive cities in America San Fransico has become one of the first cities in the nation to bring the minimum wage to top $10. Back in 2003 a proposition was assessed that re Read more.

December 15, 2011 - WASHINGTON — US mayors sounded an alarm Thursday over deepening economic woes after a survey of 29 cities from Los Angeles to Washington showed worrying rises in homelessness and poverty-related food aid. Read more.

December 15, 2011 - WASHINGTON (AP) – Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans, almost 1 in 2, have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income. Read more.

December 15, 2011 - 74% of city voters said they thought it was a good idea to mandate higher wages for projects that receive taxpayer subsidies. Among Republicans, support was 56%, and among Democrats it was 83%. Read more.

December 15, 2011 - New York Communities for Change is specifically targeting Councilman Lew Fidler’s vote as they push for the City Council to pass the Living Wage Bill. Read more.

December 15, 2011 - Estonian employers and trade unions reached a preliminary agreement on raising the minimum monthly wage by 4.3 percent from January, citing the higher cost of living and a government plan to raise pensions. Read more.

December 14, 2011 - City residents are overwhelmingly in favor of a living wage bill, a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday found. This comes as good news for Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., one of the leading supporters of a living wage. Read more.

December 14, 2011 - A new poll out today by Quinnipiac University finds overwhelming support for a living wage in New York City. Read more.

December 14, 2011 - Almost three-quarters of respondents say the living wage proposal before the city council is a “good idea” in a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday, Dec. 14. Read more.

December 14, 2011 - Members of Manhattan Community Board 4 (CB4) gathered on December 7 at Roosevelt Hospital for a full board meeting, and public hearings on issues including the NYC Living Wage Campaign and a parking garage project. Read more.

December 14, 2011 - City voters are overwhelmingly in favor of the city’s living wage bill, a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday found. Read more.

December 14, 2011 - Report: States Spend Billions on Economic Development Subsidies that Don't Require Job Creation or Decent Wages Read more.

December 14, 2011 - The living wage is living large in a new poll. Read more.

December 14, 2011 - Voters across party lines support a “living wage,” 74-19, According to Quinnipiac Poll Read more.

December 14, 2011 - Despite a tabloid report that the living-wage bill has been watered down, no changes have been made, a spokesman for the Living Wage NYC coalition said. “The Daily News story was inaccurate,” he said. Read more.

December 14, 2011 - A Quinnipiac University poll released today found that NYC voters disapprove of the way Mayor Bloomberg has handled the Occupy Wall Street protests, by a margin of 51 - 42 percent. About 50 percent of voters approve of the way the NYPD has handled the pro Read more.

December 14, 2011 - The "Living Wage" proposal currently before the New York City Council is a "good idea," voters say 74 - 19 percent. Support is 56 - 39 percent among Republicans, 83 - 11 percent among Democrats and 67 - 25 percent among independent voters. Read more.

December 14, 2011 - In 2009, you may or may not remember, the City Council nixed the Kingsbridge Armory mall project in the Bronx. The developers of the project were to receive $50 million in exemptions and tax credits—but the Council, after much argument, knocked it down, b Read more.

December 14, 2011 - The survey also found that an overwhelming number of city voters — including Republicans and people making more than $100,000 a year — support the so-called living wage bill, a proposal opposed by Mr. Bloomberg, which would raise wages for workers in city Read more.

December 13, 2011 - NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) - Living on minimum wage can be difficult, that's why one group in Northampton is pushing a living wage. Read more.

December 13, 2011 - WBAI's "Building Bridges" interviews Dan Morris of Living Wage NYC on the progress of the campaign. Read more.

December 13, 2011 - Kensington and Chelsea Council has refused to pay its staff at least the London Living Wage. Read more.

December 13, 2011 - The Service and Food Workers Union Ng? Ringa Tota, which represents over 23,000 workers who cook, clean and care for New Zealanders is looking forward to working closely with the Labour Party in opposition. Read more.

December 13, 2011 - The 30,000-member New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, which endorsed the mayor in 2005 and 2009, will today urge the City Council to pass the controversial living-wage bill, joining a growing number of private-sector unions. Read more.

December 12, 2011 - Gov. Bill Haslam says he won’t support a bill barring cities from imposing a living wage requirement on contractors, even though he signed a similar bill earlier this year that barred cities from requiring them to follow local nondiscrimination rules. Read more.

December 12, 2011 - The city is moving closer to paying its employees a living wage — not a minimum wage. Read more.

December 12, 2011 - SAN FRANCISCO - David Frias works two minimum-wage jobs to squeak by in one of the most expensive cities in America. Read more.

December 12, 2011 - While making it clear he’s against living wage laws, Gov. Bill Haslam today also said he’s not in favor of prohibiting city or county governments from adopting them. Read more.

December 11, 2011 - On Friday, Dec. 9, a coalition of community partners launched a campaign to make Hamilton a “Living Wage Community.” What is a living wage? It’s the wage needed to lift low-paid workers and their families out of poverty. Read more.

December 10, 2011 - Single mom Corinna Stroop puts off paying utility bills and other necessary expenses so she can provide healthy food for her son. She prioritizes her bills by which company is next in line to cut off her services. It’s a never-ending cycle. Read more.

December 8, 2011 - FINANCE Secretary John Swinney was today urged to use his funding deal with local authorities to ensure councils pay their employees the national living wage. Read more.

December 8, 2011 - It has been widely reported that the latest British Social Attitudes Survey found that although three quarters of the British public think the gap between rich and poor is too wide, only 35 per cent thought the Government should engage in redistribution. Read more.

December 7, 2011 - Last week, the New York City Council debated the "Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act," which would establish a minimum hourly wage, or a "living wage," of $10 per hour plus benefits -- or $11.50 without benefits -- for workers hired by companies that receive Read more.

December 7, 2011 - Issue is set to be raised at the Scottish Parliament after the Scottish Living Wage Campaign highlight issues faced by lowest paid people in country. Read more.

December 6, 2011 - On November 21, thousands of people from all over the City crowded into the Riverside Church in upper Manhattan to make their voices heard loud and clear: it is time for this administration to do right by the people of this City and pass the “Fair Wages f Read more.

December 6, 2011 - January 1 means many new things for many people across the country, but for San Franciscans making minimum wage, this date has historical resonance. For on January 1, San Francisco will be the first city in American history to offer a minimum wage over $1 Read more.

December 4, 2011 - Months after they prevented Nashville from requiring city contractors to sign a nondiscrimination pledge, Republican state lawmakers are now moving to put more limits on cities’ ability to insist that businesses meet certain standards in how they treat th Read more.

December 3, 2011 - Cleaners working at the Canary Wharf estate are calling on employers to pay them a “living wage.” Read more.

December 2, 2011 - All contractors supplying the Town Hall with essential services, supplies, maintenance and construction work must now pay their workers the minimum £8.30-an-hour London Living Wage. Read more.

December 1, 2011 - A sea of union workers, including some from the United Federation of Teachers and District Council 37, marched down Broadway Thursday to protest what they call an overall lack of economic opportunity. NY1's Bobby Cuza filed the following report. Read more.

December 1, 2011 - Born out of an argument fought two years ago over a proposed shopping mall at the Kingsbridge Armory, a fierce battle over legislation setting wage requirements at some publicly subsidized developments has come to a head this month. Read more.

December 1, 2011 - At a New York City Council hearing held on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, opponents and proponents of the living wage bill sounded off. The hearing came on the heels of a well-attended pro-living wage rally held Monday at Riverside Church in Manhattan. Read more.

December 1, 2011 - The city Economic Development Corp. has taken heat for awarding a Willets Point sewer contract to a company outside the city while drawing ire on another front about the contentious topic of a living wage. Read more.

November 30, 2011 - It turns out the current battle over a living wage bill that would raise the pay of workers in a select number of city-sponsored work environments is old hat. Read more.

November 30, 2011 - Mayor Michael Bloomberg doesn’t foresee any compromise on the "living wage" bill now under consideration in the City Council Read more.

November 30, 2011 - Thousands Gather at the Historic Riverside Church to Demand Living Wage Jobs Read more.

November 30, 2011 - Everyone knows what marbled steak looks like, with the streaks of fat running through the red meat, right in front of your eyes. The marbled public works project is harder to recognize, but it most certainly exists. Read more.

November 29, 2011 - Members of CB12 voted to support a resolution calling on Mayor R. Bloomberg to enact the “Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act,” a bill which has been recently been presented at City Council Hearings, and if passed, could raise the living standards for many New Read more.

November 29, 2011 - ALBANY — Higher-wage jobs have been disappearing in New York since the start of the recession, a new report says, while low-wage industries have grown. Read more.

November 29, 2011 - Santa Fe city workers who are struggling away at minimum-wage jobs could have earned a few cents more per hour this year if officials had paid attention to their own rules. Read more.

November 29, 2011 - Donald Spivack, the city official who drafted Los Angeles's 2003 policy that imposed a "living wage" on developers who receive certain city subsidies, says the policy has not stifled development there. Read more.

November 28, 2011 - The minimum wage in New York City is $7.25 an hour. Yet of about 317,000 low-wage workers in New York City, about one in five of these workers are paid less than the legally required wage, according to the National Employment Law Project’s recent report w Read more.

November 26, 2011 - Mayor has turned police on Occupy protesters, opposes a $10 an hour minimum wage and says bankers are patriotic Read more.

November 25, 2011 - Un pastor evangélico explica el interés de grupos religiosos en la lucha por una propuesta municipal que aumentaría el sueldo de neoyorquinos que trabajen para ciertos proyectos subsidiados por el gobierno. Read more.

November 24, 2011 - Following a two day national level meeting in Islamabad involving five trade union federations affiliated with International Textile Garments Leather Workers Federation unions have outlined a serious of key demands for the implementation of a living wage. Read more.

November 23, 2011 - The political director of one union strongly backing the city's "living wage" legislation said they can still tweak the bill and regain the support of City Councilwoman Inez Dickens of Harlem. Read more.

November 23, 2011 - A Living Wage is the minimum hourly wage required for housing, food and other basic needs for an individual and their family. Within London it is decided each year by the Mayor’s office and is currently £8.30. For the rest of the country, the Centre for R Read more.

November 23, 2011 - Push through Living Wage Act / Pasar el salario justo Read more.

November 23, 2011 - The City Council faced off on controversial legislation Tuesday that would force developers who receive big city grants to pay their workers a so-called "living wage.” Read more.

November 23, 2011 - Advocates and opponents in the heated debate over a "living wage" bill pressed their case at a City Council hearing Tuesday, but the lawmaker who controls its immediate fate, Speaker Christine Quinn, didn't take a stand. Read more.

November 23, 2011 - Even though the airlines describe this as a free service, Burke's employer has her working partly for tips, which is why her base pay is a low $6.50 an hour, somewhat like a restaurant server's, rather than the typical Illinois minimum wage of $8.25. Read more.

November 23, 2011 - Tennessee: Vanderbilt Raises Base Pay for Workers After 'Living Wage' Campaign Draws National Attention Read more.

November 23, 2011 - It doesn’t look like Christine Quinn is going to allow the City Council to vote on the "living wage" bill as it’s currently drafted, if yesterday’s four-hour-long hearing on the topic is any indication. Read more.

November 23, 2011 - When the City Council held its second hearing on Councilman Oliver Koppell’s living wage bill on Tuesday, both sides had gained supporters, but the living wage bill lost an important one: Councilwoman Inez Dickens. Read more.

November 23, 2011 - An opinion of 'living wage' legislation depends what page you're on Read more.

November 23, 2011 - Call me a party pooper if you will, but this year writing about Thanksgiving has, ironically, become a thankless proposition. Read more.

November 23, 2011 - Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. waited for this moment for more than two years. Read more.

November 22, 2011 - The City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, under pressure from both sides, carefully questioned supporters and opponents at a hearing on Tuesday about a proposed law that would raise wages for workers in city-subsidized developments. Read more.

November 22, 2011 - A City Council committee debated on Tuesday a proposed living wage bill that would require some companies who receive tax breaks from the city to pay more than the current $7.25 federal minimum. Read more.

November 22, 2011 - Mayor Michael Bloomberg is against it and Council Speaker Christine Quinn is straddling the fence, but that didn’t stop hundreds from attending a hearing on a controversial bill to boost the salaries of some workers. It’s called a “living wage.” Read more.

November 22, 2011 - Friends and foes of a local living wage bill packed a New York City Council committee hearing Tuesday to examine the merits of a revised version of the legislation. Read more.

November 22, 2011 - Archbishop Dolan discussed the importance of charity in his speech to the residents of Harlem. He hoped that during this Thanksgiving season the city would come together and those in need. Read more.

November 22, 2011 - Yesterday Nick highlighted the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)'s disparity in media strategy communicating their positions on economic justice and those about abortion and same-sex marriage. Read more.

November 22, 2011 - Today the City Council is holding a hearing to discuss revised Living Wage bill, which would require some companies receiving city tax breaks pay employees $10 an hour plus benefits or $11.50 without. Read more.

November 22, 2011 - Inside City Hall's Errol Louis hosted a debate over the contentious Living Wage Bill with Brooklyn Councilman Brad Lander, Queens Councilman Ruben Wills, Ademola Oyefeso of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and G. Lamont Blackstone of the I Read more.

November 22, 2011 - Backers of a controversial living wage bill that’s scheduled for a debate in the City Council this afternoon held a spirited rally last night at Harlem’s Riverside Church, where elected officials, union workers and leaders from faith institutions across t Read more.

November 22, 2011 - The New York City Council appears ready this week to reinitiate debate over a proposed law, called the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, that would establish a minimum wage of $10 per hour with benefits for those employees working on city government subsidi Read more.

November 22, 2011 - Chairwoman Mealy, thank you for offering me this opportunity to testify before your committee on the “Fair Wages for New Yorkers” Act, an important piece of legislation designed to ensure that our taxpayer dollars are spent more wisely. Read more.

November 22, 2011 - The City Council is set to take up a bill today that would set a living wage standard in New York. Read more.

November 22, 2011 - After weeks of street warfare, labor advocates and business leaders are set to battle it out at a public City Council hearing Tuesday over the controversial living wage bill. Read more.

November 22, 2011 - Monsignor Kevin Sullivan says the Catholic Church backs the bill to require large businesses that beneft from taxpayer subsidies to pay employees at least $10 an hour Read more.

November 22, 2011 - * New York needs to be more like San Francisco, Los Angeles and Philadelphia when it comes to a living wage mandate, proponents of the bill will testify at a City Council hearing today. Representatives from those cities will tell Council members that a hi Read more.

November 22, 2011 - Over 2,000 labor and civil rights activists rallied at Riverside Church Monday night in support of a living wages act to be voted on today in the New York City Council. Read more.

November 22, 2011 - Supporters Rally for Living Wage as City Council Revisits Bill Read more.

November 21, 2011 - The City Council is holding a Tuesday hearing to discuss a measure that would require some companies doing business with the city to pay more than minimum wage, and both supporters and detractors held events in Manhattan on Monday. Read more.

November 21, 2011 - Across The Country, Faith Groups Rally To Support Living Wage Legislation Read more.

November 21, 2011 - La falta de un salario equitativo así como el aumento de la pobreza y el hambre en la ciudad son el móvil de una cita en la que líderes de derechos civiles, sindicales y religiosos junto a funcionarios electos en la cual demandarán hoy la aprobación de un Read more.

November 21, 2011 - On Monday, November 21st, the Riverside Church will be hosting NAACP president Benjamin Jealous, civil rights leaders, elected officials, faith leaders and community leaders. Read more.

November 21, 2011 - Parties on both sides of the contentious living wage debate are gearing up for another fight tomorrow, as the City Council is scheduled to hold its second hearing on the bill–this time to consider recent revisions made to the legislation to appease critic Read more.

November 21, 2011 - http://empire.wnyc.org/2011/11/living-wage-bill-proponents-weigh-in-ahead-of-todays-hearing/ Read more.

November 21, 2011 - City council members are reviving the debate over a living wage bill by introducing an amended version of the legislation on Tuesday. Read more.

November 20, 2011 - Supporters of a bill that would raise wages at city-subsidized projects are celebrating the introduction of a formidable voice to the debate: the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. Read more.

November 18, 2011 - Days before the City Council's living-wage bill will return to the political spotlight, the region's giant health care workers union said Friday that it was throwing its weight behind the controversial measure. Read more.

November 18, 2011 - The Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act should be a local law in New York City. The policy objective is straightforward: ensure that large-scale commercial developments receiving city subsidies -- I have in mind projects like the Gateway Shopping Center, which Read more.

November 18, 2011 - Linda Archer, 58, spent years working double shifts as a nurse's assistant at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital while she was a single mother. But since the recession hit, finding a job has not been easy. Archer moved into her mother's one-bedroom apartmen Read more.

November 17, 2011 - Having been an ordained pastor now for more than 20 years has afforded me the opportunity to see and be exposed to a plethora of experiences both inside and outside of the church. Read more.

November 15, 2011 - Armed with the extraordinary social teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, I recently made a deputation to a City of Toronto committee examining contracting out work currently being done by unionized cleaning staff. Read more.

November 14, 2011 - WBAI's "Building Bridges" interviews Minister Edison Bond, Jr. and Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter of Living Wage NYC. Click here to download the broadcast. Read more.

November 14, 2011 - In preparation for a long-awaited Nov. 22 City Council hearing on Living Wage legislation, which has its roots in the battle over the fate of the Kingsbridge Armory, supporters, including several Council members, are stepping up their p.r. campaign. Read more.

November 14, 2011 - Here's a video from Living Wage NYC, the advocates for the living wage. They're holding a rally Monday, Nov. 21 at the Riverside Church in Manhattan, and then going to the City Council hearing on the bill the following day (details of the meetings are at Read more.

November 12, 2011 - Click here to listen to WBAI's "City Watch" interview Living Wage NYC coalition members Linda Archer and Stephanie Basile. Read more.

November 11, 2011 - Board of Visitors meeting prompts demonstration in support of higher salary for University employees Read more.

November 11, 2011 - All of the people that work on our campus, either directly for the University, contractors or YUSU staff deserve to be paid a living wage. Read more.

November 11, 2011 - A living wage by definition allows a family to cover basic living expenses - in Metro Vancouver it is calculated at $18.81/hour (including benefits). Read more.

November 10, 2011 - The University of Virginia's Living Wage Campaign has a few words for the board of visitors. They want the board to recognize and approve higher wages for the university's lowest paid employees. Read more.

November 10, 2011 - Labour's thinly-veiled attacks on Prime Minister John Key have continued today with leader Phil Goff bringing up the subject of Hawaiian holidays. Read more.

November 10, 2011 - The amended “living wage” bill before the City Council will limit affordable housing, crush efforts to expand food retail in underserved neighborhoods and strain social-service institutions, opponents have written to City Hall. Read more.

November 9, 2011 - Tomorrow, the Board of Visitors will be meeting to continue its stewardship of our University. With this comes the duty to make sure that the University operates in a manner that is consistent with the core values of our community. Read more.

November 4, 2011 - After months of behind-the-scenes work, the Kingston Community Roundtable on Poverty Reduction launched its Living Wage report last week and is asking Kingstonians to take up the cause. Read more.

November 4, 2011 - Pembroke has become the tenth college to back the Oxford Living Wage campaign after passing a motion in support of the initiative at last week’s JCR meeting. Read more.

November 3, 2011 - Civic groups are taking the opportunity to call for an increased minimum wage after Alberta became the province with the lowest minimum wage in the country on Tuesday. Read more.

November 3, 2011 - The Oxford Student: Join the Wage War! Read more.

November 2, 2011 - Chicago aldermen pushing for the Stable Jobs, Stable Airports ordinance received a boost yesterday when an independent study was released showing that millions of extra dollars can be added to the local economy through increased workers’ wages. The study Read more.

November 2, 2011 - Advocates of a living wage hit downtown streets Tuesday to hand out $9.40 bills to raise awareness that Alberta's minimum wage, now the lowest in the country, is not enough. Read more.

November 1, 2011 - A new study by professors at the University of Chicago and Roosevelt University finds that closing the "living wage loophole" at O’Hare and Midway airports would result in at least $6 million more a year in economic activity in Chicago. Read more.

November 1, 2011 - NAACP President, Ben Jealous has vowed to fight for a living wage in New York City, where the cost of living is higher than most of the rest of the country. Read more.

November 1, 2011 - A local living wage battle has become a national civil rights issue, with NAACP President Ben Jealous vowing to campaign for the issue in New York. Read more.

October 31, 2011 - With millions out of work, complaints about the decline in middle-class wages may seem misplaced. But without some shoring up, the middle class will remain dispirited -- and our economy, which is 70 percent dependent on consumer spending, will remain in t Read more.

October 27, 2011 - As the Oxford Living Wage Campaign gathers momentum, organisations across Oxford are massing in support as it becomes increasingly clear that student opinion will no longer accept workers struggling to live off desperately low wages. Read more.

October 27, 2011 - The Progressive Caucus will be joining Living Wage NYC and faith, labor and community leaders to call for passage of the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act on Monday, November 21 at 6:30pm. Read more.

October 27, 2011 - The struggle for economic justice, which was effectively derailed 43 years ago with the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is back on track. Read more.

October 26, 2011 - To the undiscerning eye, the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition’s annual meeting at St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church on Saturday afternoon was just like previous gatherings hosted by the non-profit organization: elected officials and community Read more.

October 26, 2011 - O’Hare and Midway Airport retailers should not be required to pay their 1,500 employees a “living wage” of $11.18-an-hour, a top mayoral aide said Wednesday, arguing that the free market should determine wages. Read more.

October 26, 2011 - The $1 million city-commissioned study focused on a real estate program that's not even covered by the bill Read more.

October 26, 2011 - Contractors working for Hudson County will have to pay part-time workers an hourly wage of at least $10.88 plus an hourly stipend of $2.39 for health and medical benefits, according to an ordinance up for adoption Thursday. Read more.

October 25, 2011 - When the federal income tax was first imposed in 1913, the richest 0.1 percent of households reaped 8.6 percent of the nation’s income. In 2007, as the recession began, the share going to that sliver of megarich Americans was 12.3 percent. Read more.

October 25, 2011 - WASHINGTON — The top 1 percent of earners more than doubled their share of the nation’s income over the last three decades, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, in a new report likely to figure prominently in the escalating political fight over h Read more.

October 25, 2011 - A study that says a proposed city living wage law would kill 13,000 jobs based its analysis on a state subsidy program that wouldn't actually be covered by the city measure. Read more.

October 25, 2011 - With turnover of airport concession contractors on the horizon, employees’ concern for their jobs and wages prompted Ald. Jason Ervin (28th) to sponsor a new ordinance earlier this month aiming to ensure fair living wages and job security. Read more.

October 25, 2011 - While Governor Walker continues pushing job creation in the state, a jobs forum with state lawmakers in Oshkosh brought out an emotional call to action from the public. Read more.

October 25, 2011 - A Jersey politician argues the minimum wage should be half of the average salary in the island. Read more.

October 25, 2011 - The Living Wage for Families Campaign, along with 54 organizations representing more than 300,000 British Columbians, recently issued an open letter calling on municipal election candidates to help low-income families in their cities by passing a living w Read more.

October 25, 2011 - RETAIL ROUNDTABLE: Manhattan City Councilman Dan Garodnick joins a discussion on living wage and the city's retail economy tonight from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Read more.

October 25, 2011 - With Election Day just over a year away, a deep sense of economic anxiety and doubt about the future hangs over the nation, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, with Americans’ distrust of government at its highest level ever. Read more.

October 25, 2011 - The potential methods used by NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn to defeat the proposed “living wage bill” supported by 30 of 51 members of the New York City Council is nothing to cheer about, when you look into the details. Read more.

October 24, 2011 - All staff on the city council should be paid the national “living wage”, campaigners said today, as new figures revealed that more than 1800 council workers are paid lower than the recommended rate of £7.20 an hour. Read more.

October 24, 2011 - The cost of living in Benton and Franklin counties has gone up faster than the state average in the past two years. Read more.

October 23, 2011 - The billionaire mayor of this city, Michael Bloomberg, is still refusing to sign a “living wage bill” currently before the New York City Council, despite revisions that watered it down somewhat. Read more.

October 21, 2011 - Iowa: All lazy slackers should get health care, retirement and a living wage Read more.

October 20, 2011 - Nearly 100 people crowded into East Boston’s Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church Tuesday night, lending their voices to the growing cacophony of the underemployed, disenfranchised, uninsured and overworked who say they are part of the 99 percent. Read more.

October 19, 2011 - The Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union wants Upper East Siders to understand the work that goes into presenting them with an impeccable shopping experience at Barneys. They’re presenting a panel discussion entitled “Malled: Revealing the Good, the Read more.

October 19, 2011 - For tidying up after the Queen they earn a princely sum of £6.45 an hour – just 37p above the national minimum wage. Read more.

October 19, 2011 - Supporters of a living wage bill that’s been lingering in the City Council for over a year now are making another effort to revive the lagging legislation, in a drawn-out battle with the Bloomberg administration and business leaders who say it would ultim Read more.

October 18, 2011 - City Council Speaker Christine Quinn stopped by WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show to talk about, among other things, the city’s economy. She had addressed the Association for a Better New York before coming on the show on the issue. Read more.

October 18, 2011 - * Following Council Speaker Christine Quinn‘s announcement yesterday that a new hearing would be held on the living wage bill in November, proponents started plotting their strategy and talking points. Read more.

October 18, 2011 - MOSES LAKE - Seventeen people marched on Saturday calling for a variety of issues, including living wages, health care for everyone and removing corporate money from politics. Read more.

October 17, 2011 - The City Council approved legislation to expose classroom overcrowding on Monday, and Council Speaker Christine Quinn also moved forward a proposal to require a higher minimum wage. NY1's Courtney Gross filed the following report. Read more.

October 17, 2011 - Amid mounting pressure, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced today that she would allow a public hearing into the controversial "living wage" bill. Read more.

October 17, 2011 - Although revisions have failed to placate opponents, a measure to require jobs at some subsidized developments to pay at least $10 an hour will get a hearing, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced. Read more.

October 17, 2011 - I thank City Council Speaker Christine Quinn for scheduling a hearing for November 22 on the amended ‘Fair Wages for New Yorkers’ Act, and I look forward to testifying. Supporters of this bill have been very mindful of the concerns of our opposition, and Read more.

October 17, 2011 - I was angered by reading your article in The Vancouver Sun. At first I thought I would not reply to you but then thought I would be doing you a favour. Read more.

October 16, 2011 - Madison, Wis., Oct 16, 2011 / 06:29 pm (CNA).- The Wisconsin Catholic Conference has backed measures to raise workers' minimum wage and to ban the sale of fetal body parts, describing both as efforts to protect human dignity. Read more.

October 16, 2011 - City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has to make a tough choice on the living-wage bill. Read more.

October 14, 2011 - * Sixteen members of the Bronx’s Albany delegation sent a letter to Council Speaker Christine Quinn this week calling for the immediate passage of the so-called living wage bill in the City Council. Read more.

October 12, 2011 - City Council Speaker Christine Quinn continued to duck a controversial “living wage” bill today. Read more.

October 12, 2011 - City Council will drop temporary employment contractor. Read more.

October 12, 2011 - SOUTH Ayrshire councillors agreed to introduce the Scottish living wage for low-paid council workers - but in a “structured manner”, and not April 2012 next year. Read more.

October 12, 2011 - Long ago, I passed boiling summers driving taxis in New York City (an experience that no doubt still summons nightmares for my former passengers, not to mention wayward pedestrians). Other summers, I worked as a doorman, hauling bags and opening doors for Read more.

October 12, 2011 - A growing number of people occupying Wall Street are raising awareness about the inherent unfairness of corporate welfare. Read more.

October 11, 2011 - At its most elemental, a battle brewing in the City Council comes down to this: Do a few thousand New Yorkers like Kimberly Ortiz deserve a raise? Read more.

October 9, 2011 - Many contractors are barely surviving on miserly pay, Rob O'Neill writes. Read more.

October 9, 2011 - Supporters of wage bill say Bloomberg officials timed release of study to undermine legislation. Read more.

October 9, 2011 - City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is widely believed to be the front-runner for the 2013 mayoral race. Last week's maneuvering over the living-wage proposal showed why that piece of conventional political wisdom is flawed. Read more.

October 7, 2011 - Chicago airport workers face difficult times ahead with new contract negotiations for concession and passenger service employees up in the air. Midway and O'Hare International Airports serve millions of people each year, generating billions of dollars for Read more.

October 7, 2011 - Northwestern's Living Wage Campaign's next project will be to bring the ‘real food movement,' which is intended to provide more healthful and environmentally conscious options, the group announced at a forum Thursday. Read more.

October 7, 2011 - Apoyo político y sindical a la protesta de Wall Street Read more.

October 7, 2011 - At its best, the Fox Valley is driven by an economy as diverse as its people, offering recreation and cultural opportunities at every turn. On the flipside, a new comprehensive study released today reveals growing communities grappling with a stagnant job Read more.

October 7, 2011 - A TRADE union has added its weight to a bid for hundreds of council workers to get a pay rise. Read more.

October 5, 2011 - Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration released Wednesday a study that claims the City Council could kill between 6,000 and 13,000 jobs by requiring city subsidized projects to pay a living wage, putting Speaker Christine Quinn, a possible 2013 mayoral Read more.

October 5, 2011 - The Bloomberg administration released a flawed economic study today that is critical of the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act. It is immoral that our billionaire mayor used a million dollars of taxpayer money -- that's money from the pockets of poor, working Read more.

October 5, 2011 - Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, facing conflicting pressures from her longtime labor allies and her new supporters in the business community, said Wednesday that she was not ready to take a position on a controversial proposal that would req Read more.

October 5, 2011 - Mayor Bloomberg really does not want to raise wages for workers in "low-skilled jobs" in New York City. How much does he hate the idea of raising wages to $10 an hour, or $11.50 an hour at companies that get $1 million or more in city subsidies? Read more.

October 5, 2011 - Councilman Oliver Koppell has changed his living wage bill — again. Changes he hopes will finally move it to the city council floor. Read more.

October 5, 2011 - Details of a $1 million study predicting the impact of living-wage mandates for city-subsidized projects were released Wednesday. Advocates for higher wages called the analysis badly flawed and worthless. Read more.

October 5, 2011 - The battle over a city council bill that would establish a mandated living wage of $10 plus benefits, rages on. Read more.

October 5, 2011 - The Bloomberg administration released a report this morning showing that the City Council’s living wage bill could cost the city some 13,000 jobs but a number of economists are saying that the city’s methodology was so flawed that it was almost “deliberat Read more.

October 5, 2011 - As Mayor Bloomberg looks to cut agency spending, a $1 million study by the Economic Development Corporation is being released arguing that forcing city businesses to pay a "living wage" would result in thousands of jobs being lost. Read more.

October 5, 2011 - Ignoring basic errors to which it was alerted months ago – and subsequent changes in the New York City Council’s living wage proposal – the Bloomberg Administration today released its flawed living wage study. Read more.

October 5, 2011 - Would an increase in wages lead to a stronger economy for New Yorkers? According to a study commissioned by the Economic Development Corporation the answer is no. Read more.

October 5, 2011 - O’Hare and Midway Airport retailers would be required to pay their 1,500 employees a “living wage” of $11.18-an-hour — even if it means raising the sky-high prices they charge their captive audience of air travelers — under a plan that’s gaining political Read more.

October 5, 2011 - A proposal that would require companies to pay higher wages on city-subsidized projects would result in a loss of jobs, according to the final version of a long-awaited study of the proposal released by the city’s economic development agency. Read more.

October 5, 2011 - The Bloomberg administration is releasing a controversial report this morning that shows a mandated wage increase would kill jobs - a jab at a growing coalition trying to pass a bill requiring a pay increase in the city. Read more.

October 3, 2011 - The Living Wage for Families Campaign is calling on candidates in next month’s municipal elections to pass a living wage policy if elected. Read more.

October 3, 2011 - Supporters of a faltering bill that would require companies in city-subsidized projects to pay higher wages plan a new push to revive the measure, setting up an unwelcome choice for Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, who could anger either labo Read more.

October 1, 2011 - New research indicates that more than 20% of British employees are earning less than a living wage Read more.

September 30, 2011 - The recession that led to an explosion in poverty began in December 2007 and ended — officially, anyway — in June 2009. It not only made the poor poorer, it snagged those who thought they had worked themselves out of poverty and blindsided those who never Read more.

September 29, 2011 - “No more slaves! Pay a living wage!” demanded a strong and spirited Brooklyn, N.Y., rally at the entrance of a Trader Joe’s grocery store on Sept. 24. Some protesters wore hats shaped like a tomato. Read more.

September 29, 2011 - Glasgow City Council is to increase its minimum "living wage" rate by 5p to £7.20 an hour from April next year. Read more.

September 28, 2011 - SCORES of workers at the Scottish Parliament could be earning less than the living wage, it was claimed today - despite the commitment by both the SNP and Labour to promote the £7.20 per hour pay rate. Read more.

September 28, 2011 - Support staff at a college have walked out on strike in a row over pay. Read more.

September 27, 2011 - The PSA says this evening’s introduction of the Sleepover Wages (Settlement) Bill is a victorious moment for support workers throughout New Zealand. Read more.

September 27, 2011 - PHUKET: Representatives of employers and employees in Phuket met today at Phuket Provincial Hall to thrash out recommendations to Bangkok over the new minimum wage for the island. Read more.

September 26, 2011 - PHOENIX - Dozens of workers protested outside Sky Harbor Airport Monday saying they are being forced to live in poverty. Read more.

September 26, 2011 - Is the subject “increase in poverty” discussed when lawmakers talk about furloughs, unemployment extensions,wage freezes, foreclosures, or jobs for inner city residents? Read more.

September 23, 2011 - The Kingsbridge Armory has stood vacant in the Bronx for over a decade despite proposals that would’ve used it to generate jobs, and after the United States Census revealed that the Bronx has the highest poverty rate in the city, Mayor Michael Bloomberg c Read more.

September 23, 2011 - CITY HALL — A disturbing one in five New Yorkers was living in poverty in 2010, according to new numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau that show the lasting wave of hardship the recession has left in its wake. Read more.

September 22, 2011 - Poverty in New York City is on the rise, as the latest U.S. Census figures show an estimated 20.1 percent of New Yorkers were living below the poverty line in 2010. NY1's Grace Rauh filed the following report. Read more.

September 22, 2011 - For many months, the Bloomberg administration has boasted that as poverty rose elsewhere in the country, it remained constant here, thanks in part to his policies. Read more.

September 22, 2011 - The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and a coalition of advocates for a city-mandated Living Wage law are placing the blame for a spike in the city’s poverty rate purely on the shoulders of Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Read more.

September 22, 2011 - With municipal elections coming to a community near you in November, expect to hear some really silly policy proposals. Some will sound too good to be true. Read more.

September 22, 2011 - Poverty grew nationwide last year, but the increase was even greater in New York City, the Census Bureau will report on Thursday, suggesting that New York was being particularly hard hit by the aftermath of the recession. Read more.

September 22, 2011 - Helen Eadie, Labour MSP for Cowdenbeath, criticised the SNP's track record on improving low salaries in the public sector after a freedom of information request revealed that out of Fife Council's 21,028 employees, 1,989 staff are paid less than £7.20 an Read more.

September 21, 2011 - As the bidding for LAX food concessions shows, businesses and good wages and benefits for workers can coexist. Read more.

September 20, 2011 - Some 100 people demonstrated in support of the cleaners at Senate House, University of London, on Wednesday of last week. Read more.

September 19, 2011 - The Government has been urged to consider a "substantial" increase in the minimum wage next year before moving to a "living wage" of £8 an hour for all workers. Read more.

September 16, 2011 - For decades, the intersection of Park Avenue and 96th Street has remained one of the city’s most obvious and despairing emblems of disparity, with East Harlem and its challenges spreading out to the north, and a vast gridlock of extraordinary privilege co Read more.

September 16, 2011 - The American political discussion has finally turned to the right target: jobs. Read more.

September 16, 2011 - When the country loses jobs, it's not surprising that more people fall into poverty. But when Texas adds jobs, more people fall into poverty, too. Read more.

September 14, 2011 - Illinois slightly better than national average at 14 percent; assistance programs stretched to the limit Read more.

September 14, 2011 - The state is moving away from awarding grants and tax breaks to companies before they deliver on their job-growth promises, Empire State Development Corp. President Kenneth Adams says. Read more.

September 14, 2011 - WITH unemployment stubbornly high and an August jobs report showing no net job creation, some people might argue that American workers should be happy with whatever employment they can get. Read more.

September 14, 2011 - UNICEF today urged the UK government to support a Living Wage so parents don’t have to do multiple jobs on the minimum wage and can spend more time with their children. It also calls for local authorities to rethink their cuts to leisure, sport and other Read more.

September 13, 2011 - NELP Statement on 2010 Poverty and Income Data Read more.

September 13, 2011 - HELSINKI (Dow Jones)--Finnish handset maker Nokia Corp. (NOK) relies heavily on contract workers at its Chennai mobile phone factory in India, paying them less than minimum living wage, said Finnish human and labor rights organization Finnwatch in a repor Read more.

September 13, 2011 - Workers at the University of London will be holding a mass demonstration on Wednesday to demand that the London Living Wage be paid to all university workers. Read more.

September 8, 2011 - Same old. There go the big boys making their big decisions using the tax payer's money to feel like they are actually doing something. Read more.

September 7, 2011 - Hudson County freeholders intend to update the county’s living-wage ordinance to make it apply to part-time workers who work for vendors doing business with the county. Read more.

September 7, 2011 - In their new book, “Good Jobs America: Making Work Better for Everyone,” Paul Osterman and Beth Shulman argue that the United States needs to worry about not just creating millions more jobs but also ensuring that the jobs are good ones. Read more.

September 5, 2011 - ON Thursday, President Obama will deliver a major speech on America’s employment crisis. But too often, what is lost in the call for job creation is a clear idea of what jobs we want to create. Read more.

September 2, 2011 - Two years ago, just before Labor Day, the Cambridge Hyatt hotel fired its housekeepers and replaced them with lower-wage workers recruited through a temporary help firm. The Massachusetts political establishment erupted in outrage and polls suggested wide Read more.

September 2, 2011 - One in every six Lethbridge workers is living in poverty, according to a provincial watchdog of citizen's interests. Read more.

September 2, 2011 - Across Canada, the United States and Great Britain, the concept of a "living wage" is taking root. Read more.

August 31, 2011 - The Living Wage Campaign calls for every worker in the country to earn enough to provide their family with the essentials of life, and recently called for it to be increased by 5p to £7.20, their estimate of a living wage. Read more.

August 31, 2011 - A roundtable to discuss the provision of a living wage for workers in global supply chains is being hosted later this year by the European Outdoor Group (EOG) and the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC). Read more.

August 30, 2011 - Businesses in Preston are being asked to follow the lead of the city council and pay their workers a ‘living wage’. Read more.

August 28, 2011 - Argentina, under the leadership of President Cristina Fernandez, is set to raise its minimum wage by 25% to approximately $550 per month wages. Read more.

August 27, 2011 - Surrey, British Columbia: PICS’ Gill Telling Farm Workers To Wake Up And Smell The Low Wages Read more.

August 27, 2011 - In the first half of 2011 the living wage has grown by 16.2 percent and totaled 5003 rubles in Dagestan. As to the source in the Republic’s Ministry of Economy, the changes occurred against the growth of consumer prices by 14 percent on average within the Read more.

August 26, 2011 - The European Outdoor Group (EOG) and the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) have announced an outdoor-industry roundtable meeting to discuss the issues surrounding ‘a living wage’. Read more.

August 25, 2011 - As the nation honors the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with a stirring new memorial on the National Mall, let’s not obscure one of his most important messages in a fog of sentiment. Justice, he told us, is not just a legal or moral question but a matter of Read more.

August 25, 2011 - THE Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial was to be dedicated on the National Mall on Sunday — exactly 56 years after the murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi and 48 years after the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Read more.

August 25, 2011 - BANGKOK: Thailand's new government wants to set the minimum daily wage at US$10 -- an increase of nearly 30 per cent. Read more.

August 24, 2011 - INDIANAPOLIS -- Maria Fajardo has been working as a housekeeper and janitor in Indianapolis hotels since 1987. The job has changed a lot in 24 years, but not for the better. The work is much more difficult than it used to be, and the pay comparatively muc Read more.

August 24, 2011 - Recently, Dan Rodricks took on the Republicans in Congress who want to pay down the federal budget deficit by raising taxes on the middle class and the poor ("Tax the poor, protect the rich," Aug. 21). Read more.

August 23, 2011 - Living wages are good for business Read more.

August 19, 2011 - Security officers in Miami say they've been underpaid for two years by Kent Security, and they've had enough. On Wednesday, dozens of officers who protect public sites at the City of Miami and the Miami Parking Authority went on strike to protest what the Read more.

August 17, 2011 - Officials in Miami, Florida say they are investigating Kent Security, a private security firm that has been paid more than $358,000 this year in a taxpayer-funded contract. According to The Miami Herald, the city's procurement director, Kenneth Robertson, Read more.

August 17, 2011 - Pelosi Says Demand Creates Jobs At Speakout For Good Jobs Event Dave Johnson Read more.

August 17, 2011 - San Francisco: IWW Couriers Union Demands Living Wage for Workers at Speedway Delivery and Messenger Service Read more.

August 16, 2011 - Research shows that living wage legislation will not significantly reduce the number of jobs Read more.

August 16, 2011 - If money is the lifeblood of making your way in this world, then Vancouver resident Steven Doerk, 42, sure could use some more of it. Read more.

August 16, 2011 - BANGKOK, Aug 16 (Bernama) - The government plans to carry out its minimum wage policy of 300 Baht (about RM30) per day starting January next year, Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said. Read more.

August 16, 2011 - Aug. 16: Railway contractor’s workers in the city have demanded a hike in wages from the existing Rs 96 a day to Rs 205, under the banner of the Railway Contractor’s Workers’ Union. Read more.

August 16, 2011 - A dozen security guards say their employer, a city contractor, isn’t paying the wage required by Miami’s living-wage law. Read more.

August 16, 2011 - Fourteen million Americans are unemployed, and the number ranges up to almost 16 million if you include those who want full-time jobs but can only find part-time ones. Read more.

August 14, 2011 - YOUNG people re calling on local businesses to pay fair wages. Read more.

August 7, 2011 - PRIVATE firms with Scottish Government contracts could be forced to pay the "living wage" of £7.15 per hour under a change to the law due to come before Holyrood this autumn. Read more.

August 6, 2011 - As the cost of living continues to increase in the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the global society, the country's minimum wage debate is once again gaining national attention. Read more.

August 3, 2011 - Nassau County on Monday hiked its living wage, the minimum pay for workers in contracts with the county of more than $25,000, to $14.61 and $12.90 an hour with benefits. Read more.

August 2, 2011 - SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed an ordinance to strengthen the city's living wage law. Read more.

August 1, 2011 - Sergei Khamentovsky reports: The Government approved a new living wage for the main socio-demographic groups last week. Today this normative standard came into force. Read more.

July 29, 2011 - EMALAHLENI, South Africa, July 29 (Reuters) - After 38 years working for one of South Africa's biggest coal miners, plant attendant Joseph still struggles to make ends meet. Read more.

July 29, 2011 - An Anglican charity that has helped hundreds of people out of poverty has begun to pay its own staff the London living wage after being alerted by the Evening Standard. Read more.

July 27, 2011 - Charles M. Blow is right on the mark when he writes, “The people who work these [low-wage] jobs are the backbone of this country, and will continue to be.” Read more.

July 27, 2011 - There’s more unhappy news for the millions of Americans hoping for a surge in the number of good, high-paying jobs — a new report concludes that the great bulk of new jobs created since the economic recovery began are in lower-wage occupations, paying $13 Read more.

July 26, 2011 - Labour has accused the Scottish Government of failing to live up to a promise to pay all its employees at least the ‘Living Wage’, the minimum income campaigners say is needed for a decent quality of life. Read more.

July 26, 2011 - Academics and labour leaders have thrown their weight behind the Pheu Thai Party's policy to raise the daily minimum wage to 300 baht, but recommend that measures be drawn up to cope with employer concerns. Read more.

July 24, 2011 - NEARLY 1,000 people who work for Scottish Government-funded public bodies are earning less than the "Living Wage" of £7.15 per hour, new research has revealed. Read more.

July 24, 2011 - Republicans in Washington - as everybody knows by now - are hellbent on sparing the privileges of the wealthy while vowing to reduce the national debt on the backs of working Americans. Read more.

July 23, 2011 - EMOTIONS were bound to be high on the minimum wage. What most did not foresee was the subterfuge that politicians will bring into it. They gave workers minimum wage with maximum wedge to ensure it never works. Read more.

July 20, 2011 - THE COUNCIL’S Conservative-led administration has blasted a new scheme which will give more than 800 workers a pay rise. Read more.

July 20, 2011 - For a brief period last year, vocal support for the concept of a "living wage" spanned the political spectrum. As part of his bid to decontaminate the Conservative brand, David Cameron pronounced the living wage an idea "whose time has come". Read more.

July 20, 2011 - In early May, the Bloomberg administration held a kick-off event to celebrate a five-year, $100 million expansion of the mayor's anti-poverty pilots, now called the Social Innovation Fund Learning Network. Read more.

July 19, 2011 - If you’re wondering why American consumers are still flat on their backs, rendering the economy similarly supine, the answer is both fundamental and simple: It’s not just that so many of them are unemployed. Read more.

July 19, 2011 - Original air date: 7/19/2011 The Living Wage Bill: If a corporation or developer benefits from certain tax subsidies from the city, should it have to pay its employees $10 or more per hour so they can have a realistic shot at a decent life? Read more.

July 19, 2011 - The Regional District of the Central Okanagan is making it easier for families to figure out if they can afford to live comfortably in the area. Read more.

July 19, 2011 - The Government's under fire over the news inflation has soared to a record two-decade high of 5.3 percent. Read more.

July 19, 2011 - The Council of Trade Unions (CTU) says the rising inflation rate must be mirrored by an increase in wages so workers can maintain their standard of living. Read more.

July 18, 2011 - One of the country's top trade unionists has met frontline staff at Newcastle City Council to discuss proposals for a living wage. Read more.

July 18, 2011 - More than 800 local authority workers in Dumfries and Galloway are set for a pay rise after councillors backed proposals for a "living wage". Read more.

July 15, 2011 - Last week I spent a few days in the Deep South — a thousand miles from the moneyed canyons of Manhattan and the prattle of Washington politics — talking to everyday people, blue-collar workers, people not trying to win the future so much as survive the pr Read more.

July 15, 2011 - In a free enterprise or capitalist system which Nigeria practices, the nexus of market forces otherwise known as the invisible hand determines the price of goods and services. Wages like other economic indicators are controlled by the forces of demand and Read more.

July 14, 2011 - THE STEWARTRY’S low paid council workers could soon have something to celebrate. Read more.

July 13, 2011 - Retailer's chief executive is targeted at annual meeting over £3.2m in pay and bonuses Read more.

July 13, 2011 - It is difficult to imagine how a minimum wage earner in Bangkok can raise a family comfortably, given the high cost of food, housing and transport in the capital. So it was no surprise that Pheu Thai's campaign pledge of a 300-baht minimum wage proved pop Read more.

July 11, 2011 - PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan and the 36 state governors have been urged to pay teachers a living wage and an improved earning system. Read more.

July 11, 2011 - The number of low-income New Yorkers is a matter of statistics. Answering deeper questions about poverty demands drilling down deep into the lives of individual people, a few of whose stories are presented in this month's issue of City Limits. Read more.

July 10, 2011 - The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) National Executive Committee (NEC) that was held today Sunday 10 July 2011 took stock of the NUMSA-led National Industry Strike which started last Monday 4 July 2011 in the Metal & Engineering sec Read more.

July 8, 2011 - MANILA, Philippines - Labor chief Rosalinda Baldoz today announced that the regional wage board has approved pay adjustments for minimum wage earners in Northern Mindanao. Read more.

July 8, 2011 - The petroleum, chemical and mining industries -- key sectors in the economy -- are bracing themselves for rolling mass action starting next week. The metal and engineering industry strike is also still firmly under way. Read more.

July 8, 2011 - Sandra Osborne, MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock, is calling for the biggest companies in her constituency and across the country to pay their workers living wages. Read more.

July 8, 2011 - I read an interesting article in the Star-Tribune by Amity Shlaes of Bloomberg News. Ms. Shlaes blames the high rate of teenage unemployment on minimum wage rates, which according to her and other right leaning pundits, are much too high. Read more.

July 6, 2011 - The living wages in Kazakhstan totaled 16 thousand 851 tenge in June, the press service of the Kazakhstan Statistics Agency reports. Read more.

July 5, 2011 - More than 110,000 South African engineers and metalworkers launched a strike Monday to demand a 13 percent wage increase, with thousands of workers marching through the country's main cities. Read more.

July 5, 2011 - Illinois is tied for the third highest minimum wage in the country, only outdone by Oregon and Washington, despite that advocates are calling for an increase is a stagnant economy. Read more.

July 5, 2011 - As the government prepares to overhaul tax credits and benefits with its universal credit, spending cuts are already trimming entitlements for low earning families. Read more.

July 1, 2011 - CHICAGO—Among various policies that former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has touted as proving he fought for the common man was a 2006 bill that raised the state minimum wage automatically each year through 2010. Read more.

July 1, 2011 - SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- San Jose's new living wage kicks in Friday for companies that contract with the city. Read more.

July 1, 2011 - KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia took its first step in having a minimum wage for workers with the passing of the National Wages Consultative Council Bill in the Dewan Rakyat. Read more.

July 1, 2011 - Kingsbridge Armory needs more than minimum wage jobs: A public-private partnership is the answer Read more.

June 30, 2011 - New York City workers are growing in number, but their pay is not keeping pace with inflation, data released Thursday show. Average weekly wages here only rose 1.3% in a year. Read more.

June 30, 2011 - Economists at Northeastern University have found that the current economic recovery in the United States has been unusually skewed in favor of corporate profits and against increased wages for workers. Read more.

June 28, 2011 - The minimum wage paid by Ventura County government will be increased by 50 cents, to $10 an hour plus benefits, in July. Read more.

June 24, 2011 - At first glance, the Bronx Gateway Center Mall near Yankee Stadium is an economic success story. Read more.

June 23, 2011 - National and Act have signaled they want to reintroduce youth rates for workers up to the age of 24 as part of their election policy. Read more.

June 22, 2011 - The first thing Councilman Oliver Koppell said at the public hearing for his living wage bill on May 12 was that the contentious legislation was open to negotiation. Read more.

June 21, 2011 - Tesco have again come under fire from Living Wage protestors, as a flash mob stormed their Earls Court store yesterday evening demanding Britain’s largest retailer increase cleaners’ wages. Read more.

June 19, 2011 - New York state is on the verge of becoming the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage, President Obama is weighing whether to explicitly support gay and lesbian unions, and the issue is becoming more of a divisive headache for Republicans than a theme Read more.

June 16, 2011 - The minimum living wage in Georgia reached 166.4 laris, according to statistics of June 1, 2011, rising by almost 30%, compared with the previous year, the Georgian National Statistics Service said, Business Georgia reports. Read more.

June 11, 2011 - Why are we so obsessed with the minimum wage? We must have a minimum wage, but by any rational standard it should also be a "livable" wage. Read more.

June 11, 2011 - Compared to a minimum wage policy which is a short-term remedy, a decent living wage will ensure workers' wages are on par with current economic reality. Read more.

June 10, 2011 - Lauren Kelley comments_image 56 COMMENTS A National Livin Read more.

June 8, 2011 - It wasn’t the law he initially hoped to pass, but Alderman Mike Jones succeeded in raising the city’s living wage up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. Read more.

June 7, 2011 - WASHINGTON -- A group of economists made the case on Tuesday for raising the federal and state minimum wages across the country as a way to boost the stagnant economy and improve the standard of living among low-wage earners. Read more.

June 7, 2011 - Cleaners at London South Bank University have staged a protest over poor pay and conditions. Read more.

June 3, 2011 - Today, nearly one in four working New Yorkers need food stamps in order to eat — a record high since Mayor Bloomberg took office. Many of them are employed full time in low-wage jobs, especially in retail. Read more.

June 2, 2011 - Next year's increase in BC's minimum wage to $10.25 an hour marks an improvement for the working poor, but it still falls far below the $18.81 experts say marks a "living wage" in the city of Vancouver. Read more.

June 2, 2011 - Minimum wage is on the way up, but it may not be enough to help many struggling to make ends meet. Read more.

June 2, 2011 - Pay for Hong Kong's army of foreign domestic helpers goes up by HK$160 to HK$3,740 from today. Read more.

June 2, 2011 - On May 21, I attended a town hall meeting at St. Paul the Apostle Church in Corona with hundreds of others to demand that the owner of the Queens Center Mall, the Macerich Co., give back to the community by transforming the publicly subsidized mall from a Read more.

May 31, 2011 - Cameo Thomas of Jackson works two jobs as a nursing home aide to support her 4-year-old twin sons. One job pays $9.50 an hour, the other $13.05. Sometimes she works 60 hours a week to make ends meet -- hard physical labor, most of it on her feet. Read more.

May 31, 2011 - LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan families are finding it harder to earn enough to support themselves, and new jobs being created over the next seven years aren't expected to help. Read more.

May 30, 2011 - A family of four in Abbotsford cannot survive on minimum wage, according to Vibrant Abbotsford, a group of community partners working together to reduce poverty. Read more.

May 27, 2011 - It obviously got a little hectic this week, what with NY-26 and all, but after the jump is a survey of 1,200 New Yorkers from Baruch College Survey Research on wages and sick days. Read more.

May 27, 2011 - Last week, I submitted testimony to a hearing of the City Council's Committee on Contracts on behalf of the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, a living wage bill that would help keep hard working individuals and families out of the grip of poverty. Read more.

May 25, 2011 - How much does living cost? That's a question that Seth Klein grapples with every day. The director of the B.C. office for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), it's his job to look at people's ambitions and find ways to make them affordab Read more.

May 25, 2011 - In New York City, Wall Street profits are skyscraper high again, real-estate developers and companies are receiving billions in public subsidies and yet a record number of full-time working New Yorkers are relying on food stamps and emergency food assista Read more.

May 25, 2011 - London hotel workers, including room attendants, waiters, porters and kitchen staff staged a protest yesterday (Tuesday 24 May) outside the Holiday Inn Mayfair, over demands to pay staff the London Living Wage during the Olympic Games. Read more.

May 24, 2011 - VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - May 24, 2011) - As Canada's largest credit union celebrates its 65th anniversary, it is timely that Vancity sets a precedent as the largest organization in Canada to become a Living Wage Employer. Read more.

May 23, 2011 - “There is something very unappealing, if not outright immoral, when a business argues that it cannot afford to pay a living wage to its workers.” Read more.

May 23, 2011 - New York City spends more than $2 billion a year on efforts to promote economic development, but the benefits flow more to developers than to workers. Why not follow the example of some other big cities, including Los Angeles, and require large city-subsi Read more.

May 23, 2011 - The current assault on collective bargaining rights shows that ideology and smash-mouth politics can triumph over economic reality. Read more.

May 22, 2011 - Party leader Phil Goff says lifting the minimum wage will ensure that people who work for a living get a fair living wage. Read more.

May 22, 2011 - City offers guide for how to grow a tax base, attract businesses and build housing, while promoting quality jobs. Read more.

May 20, 2011 - Ealing is one of only five of the capital’s 32 councils paying London Living Wage to sub-contracted workers. Read more.

May 20, 2011 - New York City spends billions of taxpayer dollars annually to subsidize new shopping centers, office buildings, stadiums and other projects. These create jobs, but often not very good ones: Workers at retail stores, concession stands and cafeterias often Read more.

May 20, 2011 - New Yorkers overwhelmingly think companies that get city subsidies should pay their workers more than minimum wage, a new poll shows. Read more.

May 19, 2011 - Not only did he co-sponsor the Fair Wages For New Yorkers Act, he has also said that he would consider discharging the bill out of committee — a rare move that requires a majority vote — to bring the legislation to the City Council floor if Speaker Christ Read more.

May 19, 2011 - If I remember correctly, a living wage in 1954 was $1 per hour, or $40 per week. I do know that a monthly mortgage payment for a 12-room, two-family house in Boston was $33. Read more.

May 19, 2011 - New York voters like the concept of a "living wage," which is encapsulated in controversial legislation that was the subject of a heated hearing last week, according to a new poll out this morning from Baruch College Survey Research. Read more.

May 18, 2011 - Jose Santiago of the WBAI Evening News interviews Joel Berg of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger about hunger, poverty and living wages. "One of the main causes of hunger in New York City is low wages," says Berg. Read more.

May 18, 2011 - Hundreds of supporters from the Bronx showed up to a May 12 City Council hearing to rally for passage of Councilman Oliver Koppell’s living wage bill. Read more.

May 18, 2011 - Editor's note: A version of this article first appeared in this week's Norwood News, out today. Read more.

May 18, 2011 - Since the most recent increase in the federal minimum wage (from $6.55 to $7.25) nearly two years ago, inflation has been eating away at its buying power. The federal minimum wage was at its highest mark in 1968, worth more than 15 percent more than it is Read more.

May 18, 2011 - As City Council Speaker Chris Quinn is up in Albany with Mayor Bloomberg, lobbying for the legalization of same-sex marriage, the Living Wage NYC coalition is continuing to push her on their own agenda, as you can see from the letter below. Read more.

May 17, 2011 - Illinois - Living Wage Campaign: Schapiro and Sunshine hypocritical on wages Read more.

May 17, 2011 - It’s budget season in New York City, when community groups and labor unions usually take to the streets to protest proposed budgets and this year proposals including teacher layoffs and social service cuts was a serious call to action. Read more.

May 17, 2011 - Stuart Appelbaum, who has emerged over the last several years as one of the leading progressive voices in the city and a frequent critic of Mayor Bloomberg, is out with a letter this morning accusing the mayor of misleading in his characterization of most Read more.

May 17, 2011 - Wow! Last week was something. Thousands of people stood up against the tremendous divide between the rich and the poor in this city and voiced their opposition to policies that reinforce a system of inequality in which our middle and working class familie Read more.

May 17, 2011 - A LABOUR MSP is calling for a living wage for Holyrood interns serving one month or more. New Lothians MSP Kezia Dugdale has lodged a motion calling for MSPs to pay their interns, who are currently unpaid on a work experience basis, a wage of £7.15 per ho Read more.

May 17, 2011 - Australian households are feeling the pinch of sharply rising cost of living pressures, according to new official data which bolsters the case for a decent increase to award minimum wages. Read more.

May 17, 2011 - More than Half of All New Jobs Are In the City’s Two-Lowest Paid Industries: Retail and Hospitality Read more.

May 16, 2011 - The following is adapted from Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.'s May 12, 2011, testimony before the New York City Council Committee on Contracts. The hearing concerned the "Fair Wages for New Yorkers" Act, which would require developers that receive Read more.

May 16, 2011 - The Bronx has become the battleground in the brawl over a City Council bill that would force city-subsidized developers to pay their workers more than the minimum wage. Read more.

May 16, 2011 - Contractors and vendors doing business with the City of Ann Arbor, as of May 1, now must pay higher wages to ensure their employees are making a decent living. Read more.

May 16, 2011 - On May 12, 2011, Local 338 RWDSU/UFCW joined the Living Wage NYC Coalition, comprised of labor, community and religious organizations, as well as members of the New York City Council, to rally in favor the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act. Read more.

May 16, 2011 - NYC Living Wage Hearing: "We Aren't Here Just to Survive. We Want to Live." Read more.

May 16, 2011 - At a time when far too many working people struggle to survive, members of a growing citywide movement today demanded living wage jobs for all New Yorkers at a public City Council hearing. At the City Council’s Contracts Committee hearing today, Mayor Blo Read more.

May 13, 2011 - Faith leaders across New York City have united to assist in organized labor's fight for living wage - a battle that has already been waged successfully in a handful of cities across the nation. On Thursday, May 12th, Rev. Peter G. Heltzel, Rev. Anita Burs Read more.

May 13, 2011 - A huge crowd of activists, politicians and working New Yorkers gathered outside of City Hall yesterday in support of a hearing on increasing the living wage. Read more.

May 13, 2011 - The New York City Council held its inaugural hearing yesterday on the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act (Int 0251-A), commonly referred to as the living wage bill. The Act would require all developments receiving more than $100,000 in city subsidies to pay i Read more.

May 13, 2011 - City Council members skewered the Bloomberg administration Thursday for opposing a bill that would mandate a "living wage" for workers in city-subsidized developments. Read more.

May 12, 2011 - Labor and city leadership collided this afternoon at a packed and feisty hearing on legislation to require city subsidized developers pay a living wage. Read more.

May 12, 2011 - A hearing was held to consider whether developers who receive big city grants should pay workers higher wages. Read more.

May 12, 2011 - Mayor Michael Bloomberg is fighting against the passage of a living wage bill, but supporters of the measure demonstrated by City Hall Thursday, before the City Council held a heated hearing on the matter. NY1's Grace Rauh filed the following report. Read more.

May 12, 2011 - NY1 VIDEO: In its "Sound-Off" section Thursday, "Inside City Hall" held a panel debate on the merits of a City Council bill that would force businesses subsidized by the city to pay a high wage. Read more.

May 12, 2011 - Sparks flew between Mayor Bloomberg and City Council members yesterday over a council proposal to force certain developers that receive city subsidies to pay a minimum "living wage" of $11.50 an hour, or $10 plus benefits. Read more.

May 12, 2011 - The next great battle in City Hall was joined today as the City Council held their inaugural hearing on The Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, which would require all businesses that receive city subsidies pay at least $10 per hour, with benefits, to all of Read more.

May 12, 2011 - Hundreds of supporters of the controversial living wage legislation rallied at City Hall prior to the first official hearing where council members challenged the Bloomberg Administration's assertion that the legislation would kill jobs. Read more.

May 12, 2011 - (05/12/11) NEW YORK - The living wage debate raged on during a rally today where Bronx residents called for an increase in hourly wages. Read more.

May 12, 2011 - One by one, City Council members took turns deriding the Bloomberg administration on Thursday for opposing a bill that would raise the minimum wage for some low-income workers by as much as $4.25 per hour. Read more.

May 12, 2011 - As we speak, there's a City Council hearing -- and a wide variety of protests and demonstrations -- going on in NYC, focused on the hot-button legislation that would require employers on larger city-funded projects to pay workers more than the minimum wag Read more.

May 12, 2011 - Advocates rally before a hearing on a bill to hike wages at city-subsidized projects. But mayoral aides and business leaders say the measure would kill jobs. Read more.

May 12, 2011 - NEW YORK CITY-A coalition of business owners, non-profits and city chambers of commerce met on the steps of City Hall yesterday to voice their dissatisfaction with proposed living wage mandates. The bill that would implement the mandates calls for wages o Read more.

May 12, 2011 - CITY HALL — After months of heated rhetoric, elaborate protests and a city-funded million dollar study, the City Council is finally set to hear the case for forcing developers who receive large city grants to pay their workers a so-called "living wage." Read more.

May 12, 2011 - New York businesses are creating more low-income sector jobs as they emerge from the recession, and requiring higher wages won’t stop their growth, a new study contends. Read more.

May 12, 2011 - It’s time for the New York City Council to pass The Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act. If you want public benefits for your project, then your project has to benefit the public. The Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act is that simple. Read more.

May 11, 2011 - Opponents took their fight to the steps of City Hall Wednesday to protest the “Living Wage” bill in front of New York City Council. Read more.

May 11, 2011 - Both sides are expected to testify at City Hall Thursday on a proposed living wage law going before the City Council. Read more.

May 11, 2011 - Nine months and $1 million later, the city says a living wage bill would stifle development and increase “extreme poverty.” Read more.

May 11, 2011 - One side is accusing the Bloomberg administration of using tactics “straight out of the K.G.B.” The other side has screamed “job killing,” taking a page from the national debate over health care. Read more.

May 11, 2011 - A City Councilman says the mayor’s administration is trying to “sabotage” a long-awaited Council hearing tomorrow about a controversial bill requiring a “living wage” for workers at projects that get public subsidies. Read more.

May 11, 2011 - No one expected a glowing assessment of a New York City living wage bill in the report funded by the NYC Economic Development Corporation -- after all, there have been concerns about the outcome of this report since the study's research team was announced Read more.

May 10, 2011 - WBAI's Evening News Discusses Living Wage Hearing, EDC Study Read more.

May 10, 2011 - Living Wage Study Ordered By Bloomberg Agrees With Bloomberg Read more.

May 10, 2011 - Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. has blasted a study, released by the Bloomberg administration, which states that the “Fair Wages for New Yorkers” Act—a bill that would require developers that receive heavy taxpayer subsidies to pay their employees Read more.

May 9, 2011 - Monday's BronxTalk, Living Wage NYC Faith Caucus clergy Rev. Que English of the Bronx Christian Fellowship Church and Rev. Dr. Raymond Rivera of the Latino Pastoral Cultural Action Center discuss living wages, http://bit.ly/ls47a9 Read more.

May 9, 2011 - New York City Comptroller John Liu discusses his support for living wages and voices his criticism of the EDC's rigged study on NY1's "Inside City Hall." Read more.

May 9, 2011 - Hackney Council and Tesco blasted as Mayor Boris raises London Living Wage to £8.30 per hour Read more.

May 9, 2011 - City Comptroller John C. Liu stated the following in response to questions about a recently completed study commissioned by the NYCEDC, “The Economic Impacts on New York City of Proposed Living Wage Mandate.” Read more.

May 9, 2011 - Eight of the 10 largest occupations in Ohio do not pay enough for an adult with a young child to live without public assistance, according to a report released Friday. Read more.

May 9, 2011 - Students for a Democratic Society vocal for change on campus Read more.

May 9, 2011 - The Northwestern Faculty Senate passed three resolutions May 4 — one to voice its concern for the possible violation of Medill professor David Protess’s due process rights, and the second and third to support the Living Wage Campaign’s efforts, according Read more.

May 6, 2011 - The hourly pay required for a "living wage" in Tompkins County has increased to $11.67, according to a study by Alternatives Federal Credit Union released Friday. Read more.

May 6, 2011 - The Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) today released its list of the top 10 reasons an expanded living wage makes sense for New York City’s workers, businesses and taxpayers. The City Council will hold a hearing on May 12 on legislation to extend the city’s l Read more.

May 6, 2011 - Approximately one million people in Brooklyn are employed, but many of their jobs do not pay very well. Nearly one in five people in the workforce toil in the retail and service sector. These jobs typically pay at or just above the minimum wage. But the c Read more.

May 5, 2011 - While the Great and Good were busy spending our money on the Royal Wedding, low-paid cleaners at Buckingham Palace were fighting to increase their meagre wages to something like a decent level. Sign the petition in their support. Read more.

May 5, 2011 - Two senior rabbis joined a special interfaith event in central London on Monday to mark the 10th anniversary of a pioneering anti-poverty campaign. Read more.

May 5, 2011 - It’s been one year since Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke, D-14, first introduced a bill that would have required major retailers to pay employees a living wage. Read more.

May 5, 2011 - Boris Johnson has increased London’s living wage to £8.30 per hour but who’s paying it? Read more.

May 3, 2011 - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/protesters-demand-living-wage-2278044.html Read more.

May 3, 2011 - OK, well that was fast. Just a few days after I questioned the City Council's foot-dragging on a hearing for the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, Council Speaker Christine Quinn finally set a date. So mark your calendars -- the New York City living wage bi Read more.

May 2, 2011 - Low paid workers in the capital are set to receive a salary increase after City Hall announced a 5% increase in the London Living Wage to £8.30 per hour. Read more.

May 2, 2011 - One of the city's premier gay political groups is joining the push for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to get behind "living wage" legislation. If she's eying a 2013 run for mayor, she may want to listen. Read more.

May 1, 2011 - 'Living Wage' Campaign Backed by Investors Worth £13bn Read more.

April 29, 2011 - Royal watchers have been asked by the Public and Commercial and Services union to support a campaign to give disgracefully low-paid cleaners in the Royal Household a living wage. Read more.

April 28, 2011 - Low wages remain a scourge for women and families, according to the Scottish Greens. Read more.

April 28, 2011 - Toward a Living Wage: Panel Discussion Hosted by Stonewall Democrats Read more.

April 28, 2011 - ST. THOMAS - A recent study commissioned by the 28th V.I. Legislature examines the question of whether the territory should raise its minimum wage for taxpayer-funded workers to $10 an hour. Read more.

April 28, 2011 - April 28, 2011 -- The Santa Monica City Council voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of a motion requiring contractors doing business with the city to provide the same benefits to same-sex couples as to heterosexual couples. Read more.

April 27, 2011 - Royal watchers will be asked by the Public and Commercial and Services union to support a campaign to pay cleaners in the Royal Household a living wage. Read more.

April 26, 2011 - On 2 May Citizens UK launches the first 'Day for Civil Society' - a mixture of faith services, rallies and an assembly celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Living Wage, on the theme: "only organised people can control organised money". Read more.

April 26, 2011 - 286 University employees make $11.44/hour or less Read more.

April 25, 2011 - Lush Cosmetics is the green cosmetic company that split off from the Body Shop in the '90's. Still privately owned by the original founder, Mark Constantine, they sell environmentally friendly soap and paraphernalia in 700 shops across the world, as well Read more.

April 22, 2011 - The global economy is suffering and the U.S., despite the title of 'best and riches country in the world," is no exception. Ours continue to be sluggish and guess who's feeling the hurt most? Read more.

April 22, 2011 - London Citizens 'face-to-face' with supermarket boss Read more.

April 21, 2011 - A public service union in Britain is trying to get a little of the millions to be spent on the Royal Wedding for the not-quite-living-wage of Royal Household cleaners. Read more.

April 21, 2011 - The measure, which is bitterly opposed by business groups and avidly supported by organized labor, would mandate wage of $10 an hour, plus benefits, for workers on city-subsidized projects. Read more.

April 21, 2011 - After nearly a year of delays, a bruising City Council labor battle is coming to City Council next month. Read more.

April 21, 2011 - Living Wage Campaign culminates Day of Action on Madison Hall, Rotunda steps Read more.

April 21, 2011 - Campus police at the College of William and Mary charged five students with trespassing early Thursday, after the students had spent 16 hours sitting in protest at the office of President Taylor Reveley. Read more.

April 20, 2011 - Cosmetics chain Lush today promised to pay a London living wage to all its employees in the capital. Read more.

April 19, 2011 - This Wednesday at noon hundreds of students, workers, professors and community members plan to meet at the Brafferton outside President Taylor Reveley’s office to demonstrate for living wages for college workers. Read more.

April 18, 2011 - In his column Monday (“Taking our alderman to task,” April 18), Nathaniel Zelinsky took a misguided stand against the living wage proposal which recently passed out of committee, accusing Ward 1 Alderman Mike Jones ’11 of putting some putative desire to b Read more.

April 15, 2011 - According to Barbara Ehrenreich, low-wage workers are America's major philanthropists. Read more.

April 15, 2011 - On Inauguration Day, a revitalized Living Wage campaign reflects on its history and seeks progress with a new administration Read more.

April 14, 2011 - It’s back, but you might not recognize it: A bill meant to raise minimum wage on city-contracted jobs has moved forward, in a scaled-down form. Read more.

April 14, 2011 - "What do we want? Living wage! When do we want it? Now!" Those were the cries of a group of University of Memphis workers and students crowded near the University Center last Friday. Read more.

April 14, 2011 - Ward 1 Alderman Michael Jones’ ’11 proposal to expand the city’s living wage law has taken a big step forward. Read more.

April 12, 2011 - Today marks the day of wage equality, or Equal Pay Day - a day to remind our legislators that, in the 21st century, women continue to earn much less than men for the same work. Read more.

April 12, 2011 - I commend the Asheville City Council members who voted to phase in an extension of the living-wage ordinance to include contract workers. Read more.

April 12, 2011 - Through the years, Federal and State Governments have continually complained about their inability to pay a living wage to civil servants. Things have recently got to a head as the Federal Government has failed to fully implement the N18,000/month minimum Read more.

April 12, 2011 - City council is dragging its feet on implementing a proposal to restrict municipal contracts only to those employers who agree to pay their workers a “living wage,” say members of an anti-poverty lobby group. Read more.

April 12, 2011 - Martin Luther King, Jr. is best known as a civil rights crusader who bravely fought against racial injustice in the 1950s and '60s. A perhaps lesser known fact about King is that he was also a tireless supporter of the American labor movement as a whole, Read more.

April 11, 2011 - It took a while, but the protest politics that have grown out of the economic downturn of 2008 finally made an appearance in the Northeast Bronx today. Read more.

April 8, 2011 - The campaign that would require developers of retail projects receiving taxpayer subsidies to pay a living wage -- $10 with benefits and $11.50 without -- is heating up as advocates press for an April City Council hearing. Read more.

April 8, 2011 - During a rally protesting University of Memphis employee wages, a small group of protesters will deliver over 1,000 postcards from students, campus workers and community members to Shirley Raines' office today. Read more.

April 8, 2011 - As cities, Vancouver and London, England, have a lot of things in common. They are both global and cosmopolitan. They are both leading proponents of developing sustainable and livable urban spaces. They have both been chosen to showcase the Olympics - whi Read more.

April 7, 2011 - The least paid workers could get a pay increment in coming weeks if a new wage structure the government has proposed is adopted at a meeting with trade unionists this morning. Read more.

April 6, 2011 - Forty-three years ago this month, our nation watched the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. The images were seared into our minds, along with the sense that our nation had lost a beacon of hope in the ongoing struggle for racial and economi Read more.

April 6, 2011 - In the spirit of the special section in this issue of Downtown Express, we would like to focus on the progress our Lower Manhattan community has made over the past year. Read more.

April 6, 2011 - On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, TN. He was in Memphis to support sanitation workers, represented by AFSCME Local 1733, who had been on strike since March 12 for higher wages and better treatment on the job. He fa Read more.

April 6, 2011 - Councillors are being asked once again to support a Living Wage in the City of Ottawa. Read more.

April 5, 2011 - On the anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, a rally was held to help pass the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act Read more.

April 5, 2011 - Hundreds of New Yorkers rallied on the 43rd anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination Monday night, calling for the passage of legislation aimed at raising wages for most workers at developments receiving public subsidies. Read more.

April 5, 2011 - Dallas civil rights and union activists marked the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King yesterday evening with a rally for Dallas sanitation workers. KERA's BJ Austin reports. Read more.

April 4, 2011 - Tonight Bronx residents sought to turn a historical tragedy into a political movement for change. Hundreds of people turned out to the Bronx Pentecostal Deliverance Center to commemorate the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to raise the demand for Read more.

April 4, 2011 - NEW YORK—On the 43rd anniversary of his father's death, Martin Luther King III released a statement Monday supporting the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act. Read more.

April 4, 2011 - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg host a live broadcast from the Bethel Baptist Church in Brooklyn where a community/labor coalition is demanding passage of the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, to address the plight of the working poor in New York City. Read more.

April 4, 2011 - Martin Luther King III has entered a local fight for living wages at certain New York City businesses on the anniversary of his father's death, in a push which proponents say can gain steam in other cities across the country. Read more.

April 4, 2011 - Son of slain civil right leader calls on City Council to raise minimum wage in NYC to $10 an hour, plus bennies, wherever businesses gained at least $100,000 in city subsidies. Read more.

April 4, 2011 - WFUV interviewed Cesar Chavez Fellow Reinaldo Diaz on why all New Yorkers need living wage jobs. Click here to listen to the segment. Read more.

April 4, 2011 - Martin Luther King III Backs NYC Living Wage Bill Read more.

April 4, 2011 - 43 years ago today Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. The assassination occurred as he was supporting a strike of municipal sanitation workers, standing up for the principle that “every working American should earn enough to live a decent life” in the Read more.

April 4, 2011 - NEW YORK — Martin Luther King Jr.'s son is urging passage of a controversial New York City wage bill. Read more.

April 4, 2011 - NEW YORK — Martin Luther King Jr.'s son is urging passage of a controversial New York City wage bill. Read more.

April 4, 2011 - Today is the 43rd anniversary of the assassination Martin Luther King, Jr., and his son, Martin Luther King III, is out today with a statement urging the city to pass a living wage law for workers in government subsidized developments. Read more.

April 4, 2011 - The son of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is using the anniversary of his father's death to weigh in on a controversial city wage proposal. Read more.

April 1, 2011 - Manurewa High School cleaners are getting a pay rise today because the minimum wage has gone to $13 an hour. But the cleaners say this is not enough to live on with the cost of living rising higher than the 25 cents an hour they will gain. Read more.

March 31, 2011 - The Tompkins County Workers' Center (formerly Living Wage Coalition) has long worked on local issues that relate to the necessity of people earning a living wage for their work. Ithaca College, by the same token, has engaged deeply in sustainable practice Read more.

March 31, 2011 - Hard as it can be to land a job these days, getting one may not be nearly enough for basic economic security. Read more.

March 31, 2011 - Friday marked the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 New York City workers, the majority of them young, immigrant women, died an unnecessary death. Read more.

March 31, 2011 - Sri Lankan apparel industry labour rights coalition ALARM is calling for a LKR20,000 (US$ 180.98) monthly ‘living wage’ for local apparel workers. Read more.

March 30, 2011 - The City of Surrey has asked staff to explore the impact of a "living wage" policy. If such a policy was endorsed, it would mean Surrey would require (as part of its tendering process) that employees of the successful bidder pay a set wage amount, likely Read more.

March 30, 2011 - Food Bank For New York City would like to announce its endorsement of the ”Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act.” As our supporters know, the Food Bank works to educate members of the public and government officials at the city, state and federal levels to enli Read more.

March 25, 2011 - One-hundred years ago today a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in the West Village claimed the lives of 146 garment workers and led to the adoption in New York City of 36 new labor laws. Read more.

March 25, 2011 - With basic living expenses on the rise in Metro Vancouver and across the province, two municipal councilors encouraged their peers to consider adopting living wage policies. Read more.

March 24, 2011 - Here at the Poverty in America blog, we've recently drawn comparisons between the paid sick leave bill that was sadly defeated in the New York City Council last year and the living wage law that's being floated in the council right now. Read more.

March 23, 2011 - Many contractors doing business with the city will now have to pay employees a “living wage,” making it one of only two cities in the state to set standards higher than the minimum wage for private businesses. Read more.

March 23, 2011 - NEW YORK, NY (March 23, 2011) - Mayor Bloomberg’s Center for Economic Opportunity has released an important study, “Policy Affects Poverty” that can help policymakers improve how they measure poverty and mitigate its worst effects. Read more.

March 22, 2011 - WYOMING — A deal approved Monday would use future tax proceeds to reimburse redevelopers of the former General Motors plant on 36th Street SW, so long as the 90-acre site gets revived by manufacturers that provide “living wage” jobs. Read more.

March 21, 2011 - City Council Speaker Christine Quinn recently announced that she plans to hold hearings next month over the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, a bill introduced last May requiring employers that receive public tax subsidies to pay employees at least $10 per Read more.

March 19, 2011 - The real issue in the imbroglio in Wisconsin is the definition of a basic entitlement. Is an employer entitled to the labor he hires at whatever price the market sets, or is the worker entitled to a living wage? Read more.

March 18, 2011 - Tucked into Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 30-day budget amendment is a clause that by some interpretations could greatly expand the number of counties where home care workers could be paid a "living wage," or pay floor set by local governments. Read more.

March 18, 2011 - MORE than 430 North Ayrshire Council workers are in line for a wages increase. Read more.

March 17, 2011 - On Jan. 14, a huge crowd of 2,000 activists joined clergy, elected officials and community leaders at Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Harlem to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and call for progressive action that would further one of t Read more.

March 16, 2011 - With a hearing on New York City's proposed living wage legislation coming up in a matter of weeks, it's time to seriously ratchet up our efforts to convince the New York City Council that living wage laws are a good thing. Read more.

March 16, 2011 - The business coalition that killed paid sick-days legislation last year has now set its sights on defeating a proposal that would require jobs resulting from city-subsidized projects to pay at least $10 an hour, plus benefits. Read more.

March 16, 2011 - Will New Yorkers - some of them at least - finally be paid a little closer to what they deserve? Read more.

March 15, 2011 - A D.C. councilman is pushing for regulations that would require big box retailers like Walmart to pay their workers "living wages." Read more.

March 15, 2011 - Not only are Santa Cruz workers not always getting minimum wage, but even those who are being paid fairly can barely afford to live here. Read more.

March 15, 2011 - London Metropolitan University’s vice chancellor has apologised after he forgot to include cleaners and security guards in an email promising to pay all staff the London living wage. Read more.

March 13, 2011 - Gaynelle Atkinson, 52, is a career-driven professional who lost her secretarial position a few years ago. A single mom living in Coney Island, her unemployment benefits have run out, so she now averages about $150 a week babysitting her granddaughter. She Read more.

March 11, 2011 - City officials, community activists, and leaders from the faith called for the passage of a living wage ordinance in New York City at an event at Brooklyn College on Thursday. Read more.

March 11, 2011 - Legisladores y activistas dicen que la ciudad ha dado más de $2.000 millones de dólares en subsidios para incentivar la creación de empleos, pero las compañías sólo crean trabajos con "salarios de pobreza", pagando el mínimo que demanda la ley. Read more.

March 11, 2011 - This week, Good Jobs New York, along with the Fiscal Policy Institute and the National Employment Law Project, released a report highlighting how New York City economic development policies often support low-wage jobs. Read more.

March 11, 2011 - Two weeks after a sprawling City Limits article asked if a living wage law could be the next New York City council "battleground," and one week after the launch of a petition urging Council Speaker Christine Quinn to support such legislation, Quinn has sa Read more.

March 10, 2011 - At a Thursday forum in Manhattan, elected officials joined advocates to push for the passage of the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act. Read more.

March 10, 2011 - City Comptroller John Liu is slated to appear at a public forum entitled "Why Are We Funding Low-Wage Jobs" at the Brooklyn College Graduate Center for Worker Education this afternoon that labor and progressive groups hope kicks off a major effort to crea Read more.

March 10, 2011 - WBAI's Esther Armah interviews Michele Mattingly of the Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) about taxpayer dollars funding poverty-wage jobs in New York City Read more.

March 9, 2011 - The City Council's Progressive Caucus has a letter out today boosting the so-called "living wage" bill for NYC (and taking off on the NYP's edit board for criticizing it). Read more.

March 8, 2011 - “I’m pleased that City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has committed to host hearings on the ‘Fair Wages for New Yorkers’ Act, which already has the support of more than half of the City Council. Our bill will require developers who receive heavy taxpayer Read more.

March 8, 2011 - An updated study of job quality and economic development subsidies in New York City shows that public funds are subsidizing poverty-level jobs. New York City spends well over $2 billion annually in the name of economic development and job creation. Read more.

March 8, 2011 - Today Erin Einhorn reported that Council Speaker Christine Quinn has agreed to hold hearings on a living wage bill pushed the last several years by unions and activists. Read more.

March 7, 2011 - A controversial bill requiring a "living wage" for workers in city-subsidized developments is finally getting a hearing after a year of legislative oblivion. Read more.

March 7, 2011 - Surrey city councillor Bob Bose wants his municipality to explore the idea of a living-wage policy. Read more.

March 7, 2011 - A “living wage” capable of supporting a family, as distinct from the minimum wage or any increase to it, ought to be a municipal election issue this fall, Coun. Nancy Bepple said Monday. Read more.

March 7, 2011 - New Zealand's largest casino has begun locking out its workforce in an attempt by the company to force unionised employees to accept a new agreement. Read more.

March 5, 2011 - Citing paltry wages and the recent deaths of two human service workers in the state, the SEIU Local 509 staged a rally in front of City Hall late Friday morning. Union members called for higher pay and safer working conditions. Read more.

March 5, 2011 - New York's businesses, legislators and labor advocates are turning their attention back to a bill that would guarantee a living wage for employees working on city-subsidized projects. Read more.

March 4, 2011 - Concession stand workers at Midway Airport are seeking pay raises. Read more.

March 2, 2011 - The fight for a “greener” borough, better living wages, economic development and elimination of PCBs in schools are only a few issues the borough president plans to tackle in 2011. Read more.

March 2, 2011 - Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. said in his second State of the Borough address on Feb. 24 that there is great interest in developing the Kingsbridge Armory and invited Mayor Michael Bloomberg to join him to responsibly develop the structure. Read more.

March 2, 2011 - THE LIVING Wage Campaign at the University — represented in part by Workers and Students United — hosted a rally last week to raise awareness of its agenda and attempt to pressure school administrators to consent to instituting an artificial minimum wage Read more.

March 1, 2011 - I would argue that a living wage could provide more insight to the challenges that the 'man on the street' faces, especially in these trying times. Read more.

March 1, 2011 - We spend billions in Europe's busiest shopping street, yet what do those who serve us earn? David Cohen investigates which stores pay the London Living Wage. Read more.

February 28, 2011 - Labour leader makes suggestion as new research shows 22p in every pound of increased wages between 1979 and 2005 went to society's highest earners Read more.

February 28, 2011 - The Northwestern Living Wage Campaign will bring author Barbara Ehrenreich to campus in April to lead off a two-day conference discussing the validity and viability of implementing a living wage at NU. Read more.

February 28, 2011 - As the Board of Visitors convened Friday, more than 200 workers and University students assembled on the southern part of the Lawn, unfazed by the gusty winds, to march for a living wage. Read more.

February 28, 2011 - The Living Wage is a term which has gained ground in mainstream politics over the past year or so. Ed Miliband has used it in attempts to forge his political identity. Boris Johnson has spokenof his support for the concept and would like to see it introdu Read more.

February 25, 2011 - Borough President Diaz also continued his call for a new “living wage” law in New York City, one that would require developers who receive heavy taxpayer subsidies to do better by their employees. Read more.

February 25, 2011 - NIn the midst of a recession, the impetus for municipal living wage ordinances has been generally back-burnered in most localities. Interest in the living wage appears to be reviving in New York City and will test nonprofits on where they stand on the iss Read more.

February 24, 2011 - More employers – even in tough times – are committing to paying their lowest paid workers one-third more than the statutory minimum. Anat Arkin finds that the benefits of the ‘living wage’ work both ways Read more.

February 24, 2011 - OUR students, administrators, peer institutions and community all agree that paying workers a living wage is the right thing to do. Read more.

February 23, 2011 - For Living Wage NYC, a broad coalition of interfaith and political groups advocating for a higher wages in New York, the night was the culmination of nine months of interfaith organizing. Read more.

February 23, 2011 - The New York Theological Seminary’s Micah Institute has named Pastor Anita Burson as the 2011 Ella Baker Fellow. Rev. Burson will be working in the cause of economic justice with the Living Wage NYC coalition. Read more.

February 23, 2011 - Following the defeat of paid sick leave, unions and business group prepare to face off over tying wages to city development subsidies. Read more.

February 22, 2011 - On the first day of spring semester, representatives of Students and Workers United for a Living Wage met with President Teresa Sullivan to discuss fair wages for all University employees. Read more.

February 18, 2011 - “Pass the bill . . . right now” reverberated throughout the great sanctuary of Convent Avenue Baptist Church where as many as 1,400 people of faith, community leaders, labor leaders and large numbers of elected officials assembled on January 13 for an int Read more.

February 18, 2011 - In an era when the richest one percent of American households are reported to be collecting close to a quarter of the country's overall income, it makes sense to hear increasing talk about a "living wage" for the millions of workers at the other end of th Read more.

February 18, 2011 - During the Week of Action Against Poverty, Kenora Association for Community Living (KACL) executive director, James Retson is calling on Canada to commit to a living wage for the nation's disabled — and is hoping to make it an election issue. Read more.

February 17, 2011 - Quinn declined to say whether now might the right time for the bill, which would mandate the $10-per-hour living wage for workers on city projects that would grow in line with inflation. Read more.

February 17, 2011 - The community of Williams Lake has a living wage benchmark. Read more.

February 13, 2011 - The number of New Yorkers on food stamps has soared to a record 3 million - an 11% jump from 2009 and a 65% increase in the past five years, the Daily News has learned. Read more.

February 13, 2011 - The time has come for Surrey to follow the lead of New Westminster and endorse a living wage policy. Read more.

February 12, 2011 - Illinois’ minimum wage should be pushed above $10 an hour over the next few years and then tied to the cost of living, advocates said, launching a new campaign to increase a rate that’s already higher than that of its neighbors. Read more.

February 9, 2011 - Airport concessions workers would be paid at least $11.03 an hour under a union-backed living wage proposal, which supporters acknowledge could raise the prices of food, drinks and other goods at O'Hare and Midway. Read more.

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February 9, 2011 - The captive audience of consumers at O’Hare and Midway Airports has grown accustomed to paying higher prices. But they might want to hang onto their wallets. Read more.

February 9, 2011 - With a massive bidding process for food and retail outlets at O'Hare and Midway now under way, concession workers don't want to be left behind. A new ordinance seeks to shore up their jobs and wages. Read more.

February 8, 2011 - An ordinance could be headed to the City Council that would make it more expensive for companies to run restaurants at the city's airports. Read more.

February 8, 2011 - The time has come for Surrey to follow the lead of New Westminster and endorse a living wage policy. Read more.

February 7, 2011 - Some union members are demanding that Wal-Mart Inc. should make promises to workers when it comes to its D.C. locations. Read more.

February 7, 2011 - The Ronald Reagan crowd loved to talk about morning in America. For millions of individuals and families, perhaps the majority, it’s more like twilight — with nighttime coming on fast. Read more.

February 5, 2011 - At the Community Service Society, we emphasize work as a way out of poverty, but not at poverty wages. The minimum wage in New York is $7.25 an hour. Read more.

February 3, 2011 - Could you live off a basic monthly minimum wage of $6.35? (I had to check a couple of sources to verify there wasn’t a typo) No joke. Read more.

February 2, 2011 - The chart is the product of the Fiscal Policy Institute, the labor-backed group that is one of the lone voices trying to be heard over the ever-growing roar demanding that wages and benefits for workers be knocked down as low as possible. Read more.

February 2, 2011 - Following the promise by the Federal Government to pay workers the minimum wage of N18, 000 per month, and the seeming lethargy of living up to the promise, the Nigeria Labour Congress has threatened a nationwide strike to press home the demands of the wo Read more.

January 30, 2011 - Waterloo Community Schools' support staff asked administrators for a raise Thursday that brings salaries "closer to a living wage." Read more.

January 28, 2011 - Thousands of New Yorkers packed the sanctuary of Covenant Avenue Baptist Church last Thursday for an interfaith service honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., where union leaders, clergy members and community activists joined with elected officials to deman Read more.

January 28, 2011 - The idea of a living wage arises from the observation that although an economy can create employment on the basis of low wages the volume of employment may not be sufficient to counterbalance the effect of low wages on demand. Therefore a living wage woul Read more.

January 28, 2011 - Together, all across America, labor and religious leaders are joining hands and asking for changes in the law. People for a Living Wage, a group of Aspen Skiing Co. employees, has pointed out that some of Skico's jobs pay less than $10 an hour. We may dis Read more.

January 27, 2011 - In December, as 2010 glittered to a close, life among New York City’s affluent caste looked remarkably like the go-go good old days before the recession. Read more.

January 27, 2011 - RAP has been a prime mover behind the Living Wage NYC coalition, a group pressuring New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to sign on to legislation that would require all employers that receive public funding to provide living wages. Read more.

January 27, 2011 - To reduce poverty, I launched the “Living Wage NYC” campaign and led the introduction to the City Council of the “Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act” which requires that workers at development projects receiving city subsidies be paid at least $10 an hour wit Read more.

January 27, 2011 - At a meeting Monday in Washington Hall, the Living Wage Coalition discussed its plans for the new semester, one which it hopes will include a living wage for workers at the College of William and Mary. Read more.

January 27, 2011 - JEFFERSON CITY — A renewed attempt yesterday to repeal automatic cost-of-living adjustments in Missouri’s minimum wage law became a debate over what is better for business — workers with more money to spend or lower entry-level wages. Read more.

January 23, 2011 - The employees gathered Saturday at the school's Wesley Foundation for a prayer vigil seeking pay hikes for university employees. The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports that about 285 University of Memphis employees make less than $11.62 per hour — the amou Read more.

January 23, 2011 - Unemployment is sky-high, the economy is still in shambles and food is so expensive that it has become a luxury item for thousands of New Yorkers. Yet, economists and politicians keep proclaiming the recession is over. Read more.

January 22, 2011 - Momentum is picking up around the City Council Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, “Requiring the payment of a living wage [$10/hr currently] to employees employed on property developed by recipients of financial assistance for economic and community developm Read more.

January 21, 2011 - A potential increase in Maryland’s minimum wage from the current $7.25 per hour to $10 per hour by 2013 could have a devastating effect on small businesses around the state struggling to stay afloat in the current economy, according to the area’s represen Read more.

January 20, 2011 - It was standing room only as nearly 50 people witnessed Esquimalt council inch forward with the development of a proposed – yet restricted – living wage policy. Read more.

January 20, 2011 - An organization that promotes the rights of workers, the Living Wage NYC Coalition, said recovery has not come soon enough. Read more.

January 19, 2011 - It’s a new year, which means Councilman Oliver Koppell and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. resuming their fight for a living wage bill in New York City. Read more.

January 19, 2011 - Income gaps in New York are greater than those of any other big American city, and have been trending higher for decades, says a study by the Fiscal Policy Institute. Read more.

January 19, 2011 - The Progressive Caucus calls for a real plan of action to move New York City out of this economic crisis and appeals to Mayor Bloomberg to work with us in our shared vision of a better New York City. Read more.

January 19, 2011 - Working poor New Yorkers are still waiting for the economic recovery the mayor referenced in his speech. His unmatched ability to turn the economy around was how his campaign framed the rationale for a third term but many struggling communities have yet t Read more.

January 19, 2011 - Working poor New Yorkers are still waiting for the economic recovery the mayor referenced in his speech. His unmatched ability to turn the economy around was how his campaign framed the rationale for a third term but many struggling communities have yet t Read more.

January 19, 2011 - Finding fault with the cost of living calculation, two worker advocacy groups are suing Florida's labor agency, claiming the state failed to raise the minimum wage by 6 cents an hour this year to keep up with inflation. Read more.

January 19, 2011 - Mayor Bloomberg's third term began badly for middle class New Yorkers. Twelve thousand families fell into poverty over the past year, a four percent increase. The number of food stamp recipients in the city is up by 15 percent, and the number of families Read more.

January 19, 2011 - The critics have begun to chime in. The Living Wage NYC Coalition, a group that has advocated for higher wages for the city's poorer residents, has circulated an e-mail criticizing Mr. Bloomberg's management of the economy. "Working poor New Yorkers are s Read more.

January 19, 2011 - “Wealthy owners of the means of production and employers must never forget that both divine and human law forbid them to squeeze the poor and wretched for the sake of gain or to profit from the helplessness of others.” — Pope Leo XIII Read more.

January 17, 2011 - During his lifetime, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knew that the civil rights movement and the labor movement had to remain firmly united. He understood that there can be no real equality without economic security and that government must play a role in prot Read more.

January 17, 2011 - HARLEM — Political and civil rights leaders descended on Harlem Monday to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day and urge New Yorkers to continue Dr. King's work by taking action on some of the toughest issues in the neighborhood — guns, schools and wages Read more.

January 17, 2011 - Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and people all across the country will honor the civil rights leader. From speeches at local high schools and sermons in churches to Organizing for America's national day of service, MLK day is a day to reflect on how Read more.

January 15, 2011 - The struggle for racial integration must be matched by a struggle for economic justice. Justice is not only about access to public places; it's also about jobs, good jobs. Read more.

January 14, 2011 - It was standing room only at Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Harlem on a recent night. Organizers said nearly 2,000 people were in attendance as clergy, elected officials and union leaders invoked the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. to ignite support fo Read more.

January 14, 2011 - Nearly half a century ago, Martin Luther King used the pulpit to issue a far-reaching call for social justice. Clergy and public officials laid claim to this legacy at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church last night, where they enjoined the city council to p Read more.

January 14, 2011 - Unions and business retrench over amendments to living-wage bill Read more.

January 13, 2011 - The spirit of the Civil Rights movement was on full display tonight in Harlem as hundreds of people turned out for a “Mass Meeting for Living Wages” at the Convent Baptist Church. Read more.

January 13, 2011 - "I don't think government should be in the businesses of setting wages." Read more.

January 13, 2011 - A number of elected officials are gathering in Harlem tonight to push for a bill that would require a living wage on all projects that receive a city subsidy of over $100,000. Read more.

January 13, 2011 - I spoke to RWDSU leader Stu Appelbaum ahead of tonight's scheduled "living wage" rally (slated for 6:30 p.m. at the Convent Baptist Church in Harlem) and the union chief had some rather harsh words for Mayor Bloomberg. Read more.

January 13, 2011 - I am writing to express my personal support and the support of the hundreds of churches and tens of thousands of United Methodists in the New York Annual Conference for the proposed “Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act.” Read more.

January 13, 2011 - Together, the council's three resolutions are a clarion call for greater workplace justice in New York: Truck drivers servicing the region's ports should not suffer exploitation, workers who responded to an attack on our nation deserve to have their healt Read more.

January 13, 2011 - In advance of the major rally tonight in support of the Living Wage bill working it’s way through the City Council, an insider provided this roadmap to their strategy. Read more.

January 12, 2011 - Latest tweak to controversial bill requiring a higher pay floor on any city-subsidized projects would exempt businesses with less than $1 million in revenue and nonprofits of all sizes. Read more.

January 12, 2011 - When members of the City Council want Speaker Christine C. Quinn to call a hearing on a piece of legislation, they have a few options. They can try to cut a deal; they can issue a few dozen press releases; they can nag. Read more.

January 12, 2011 - On September 18, 2010 over 300 Cambodian garment workers, many of them trade-union leaders, were unjustly suspended or fired from their jobs for participating in a nation-wide strike for an increase in the minimum wage. Read more.

January 12, 2011 - A controversial proposal that would force some city businesses to pay a "living wage" is getting a new twist -- it will exempt "mom and pop" shops from the requirement, The Post has learned. Read more.

January 11, 2011 - Like most black preachers, I sermonize the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as my own. As we approach another ceremonial season of reflection on Dr. King, what meaningful service shall I render in his name? Read more.

January 10, 2011 - NORTH AURORA — Threatening snow and a bitter west wind didn’t stop about a dozen protesters from rallying in front of the Illinois Department of Employment Security Friday afternoon. Read more.

January 8, 2011 - Mayor Michael Bloomberg has started the new year with his reputation as a first-class manager suddenly in question after a post-Christmas snowstorm left New York paralyzed for days. Read more.

January 6, 2011 - As we prepare to celebrate the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., many are focused on memorializing his legacy. In so doing they lose sight of the agenda, the mission and the work that Dr. King left behind for us to continue. Read more.

January 5, 2011 - Moderator Bob Liff and a panel of experts debate the highly controversial “living wage” bill, which is currently being considered in the New York City Council. Read more.

January 1, 2011 - 2010 had seen a decline in people’s purchasing power due to higher energy costs, General Workers Union president Victor Carachi said in his New Year’s address today. Read more.

December 31, 2010 - Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday his administration fulfilled a promise to plow every city street, but elected officials and others insisted some streets never saw a plow before the 7 a.m. deadline, marking another setback for the beleaguered mayor. Read more.

December 29, 2010 - Millions of Americans barely scraped by this holiday season, stuck in poverty-wage jobs or mired in unemployment. But the latest retail sector reports show that we did manage to shop a little more, perhaps because people are resorting to the material comf Read more.

December 29, 2010 - The Royal City notched up one for the history books April 26 by becoming the first city in Canada to adopt a living wage bylaw. Read more.

December 29, 2010 - This is the not so hidden secret about New York. We live in a City and State with deep class divisions. The Economic Crisis of 2008 has only accelerated these divisions. Read more.

December 28, 2010 - Who knew? The resounding old revolutionary motto, "Liberte, Egalite Fraternite" is good health policy as well as good rhetoric, some social scientists are now arguing. Economic equality, it turns out, is good for everyone, even those at the top of the s Read more.

December 23, 2010 - During this holiday break it’s inspiring to remember that sometimes it’s those with least who are doing the most to fight for the ideals that many of us will celebrate in the coming days Read more.

December 23, 2010 - It’s the one-year anniversary of the nearly unanimous City Council vote that scuttled the mayor’s juggernaut to stuff a cookie-cutter mall inside the landmark Kingsbridge Armory. Read more.

December 20, 2010 - When it comes to feeding the hungry many churches do their part by offering free hot meals. Read more.

December 19, 2010 - Botswana National Front (BNF) labour secretariat has urged employers to remunerate workers better to assure them a decent living. Read more.

December 17, 2010 - In late October, the Fiscal Policy Institute and the National Employment Law Project released a report claiming that the two researchers being paid $1 million by the city's Economic Development Corporation to study the effects of the living wage bill are Read more.

December 16, 2010 - It’s the one-year anniversary of the nearly unanimous City Council vote that scuttled the mayor’s juggernaut to stuff a cookie-cutter mall inside the landmark Kingsbridge Armory. Read more.

December 16, 2010 - More than 100 people, including union members, labour leaders, politicians, and community members, converged in front of the Extra Foods in downtown Maple Ridge on Wednesday to mark the second anniversary of the ongoing strike by workers at the grocery st Read more.

December 16, 2010 - his study showed two positive effects from living wage ordinances, one for workers and one for businesses. The workers’ wages rose, and businesses saw their job turnover decline by 20%. Read more.

December 15, 2010 - The Queens Center Mall in Elmhurst received $48 million in city tax breaks from 2004 to 2009 and is rated as one of the ten most profitable malls in the country. Read more.

December 15, 2010 - After recently scuttling a bill that would require paid sick days, the Bloomberg administration and the business community now are training their sights on two more City Council proposals intended to help workers. Read more.

December 14, 2010 - The business-vs-labor war over the living wage bill is getting uglier with the release of a report questioning the credentials of a group of 650 economists whose support for raising the city’s wage standards is being considered by the City Council. Read more.

December 14, 2010 - In a speech to business leaders at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Dec. 8, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg claimed that his policies had “laid the foundation” for what he characterized as “the City's resurgence.” He also presented himself as post-partisan Read more.

December 13, 2010 - Gov. David A. Paterson signed into law some of the nation’s strongest protections against wage theft on Monday, after months of lobbying by immigrants’ advocates and labor unions that said New York lagged behind other states on the issue. Read more.

December 13, 2010 - Olympics bosses pledged today to support the London Living Wage as they recruit 130,000 people in Britain's biggest peacetime mobilisation of a labour force. Read more.

December 12, 2010 - The city's wealthiest have grown rich beyond compare. Now for the other 99%. Read more.

December 12, 2010 - BOISE-- Just a week after the state announced the unemployment rate jumped three-tenths of a percentage point to 9.4 percent, a new report paints a bleak picture for Idaho jobs. Read more.

December 9, 2010 - For more than 100 years, we've heard opponents "Cry Wolf" when governments tried to establish living wage or minimum wage laws, threatening higher unemployment and inflation. Read more.

December 9, 2010 - Despite widespread talk of economic recovery, jobs that pay enough to meet a family’s needs in Idaho are few and far between, according to a new report released today and prepared by the Alliance for a Just Society. Read more.

December 9, 2010 - A labor-backed group issued a statement saying the mayor “wildly overstated” the character of the city's recovery. “As of October, a record number of New Yorkers—nearly 2 million—were enrolled in the city's food stamp program,” said a spokesman for the Li Read more.

December 9, 2010 - Dan Morris, a spokesman for a coalition advocating for a living wage bill, said the mayor focused on "courting the national political and business elite" while "squandering an opportunity to offer a real economic vision for struggling New Yorkers." Read more.

December 8, 2010 - “As of October, a record number of New Yorkers — nearly 2 million — were enrolled in the city's Food Stamp Program,” he said in an email statement. “That’s a clear sign the Mayor’s economic policies and vision have failed working people.” Read more.

December 8, 2010 - Trabajadores del centro comercial alegan que no reciben ni salarios mínimos Read more.

December 8, 2010 - "Wall Street profits are soaring again, but average New Yorkers are still struggling," said Dan Morris, spokesman for a group trying to raise minimum wages for some city workers. "If the mayor is as inspired by working people as he claims, he should stand Read more.

December 7, 2010 - Today, elected leaders, community and union members joined retail workers to demand that Queens Center Mall owner, the Macerich Company, stop wage theft by retailers and ensure living wages for everyone who works in the mall. Retail workers report that a Read more.

December 7, 2010 - Clergy members from the Bronx and across the city led a silent march on City Hall on Nov. 17 to voice their support for the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, or “Living Wage Bill.” Read more.

December 6, 2010 - The Living Wage Campaign—an organized effort to raise awareness of poverty and the cost of living in B.C.—is gaining momentum in local communities, thanks to the support of the Hospital Employees’ Union (HEU), CUPE’s health services division in the provin Read more.

December 6, 2010 - Two years after requiring airport businesses to give their employees a "living wage" -- at the urging of labor leaders -- San Jose officials Tuesday will consider changes aimed at making it more palatable to airlines and other companies they desperately n Read more.

December 3, 2010 - FOUR hundred low paid West Dunbartonshire Council workers are set for a £200,000 pay boost. Read more.

December 1, 2010 - THE Ekiti State governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has reiterated the support of his administration for workers in the state to be paid a living wage, which would enhance their standard of living and make them contribute to the improvement of the economy of the Read more.

November 30, 2010 - Living wage mandates on businesses that receive government subsidies do not have a negative impact on job and business creation, according to a new study of 15 cities by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Read more.

November 30, 2010 - Momentum Grows for the Fair Wages Act Read more.

November 25, 2010 - Last week, business leaders converged on KPMG's new Canada Square headquarters to discuss the latest developments in the Living Wage, where it was announced more than 100 firms pay the going rate of £7.85 to their lowest paid workers. Read more.

November 25, 2010 - Should we tear down the city’s middle class? Or work to turn lousy jobs into good ones? That’s the policy choice facing New York’s city and state leaders. Read more.

November 24, 2010 - When explaining her reasons for killing paid sick leave legislation earlier this year, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said that the economic costs associated with the bill would be too great. Read more.

November 24, 2010 - About 100 members of the clergy lead a silent procession to city hall where they delivered the post cards. They were joined by labor leaders, community activists, and the members of their congregations holding signs that read "NOW IS THE TIME." Read more.

November 24, 2010 - Despite an effort by Santa Barbara City Councilman Dale Francisco to “reconsider” the city’s living wage, a majority of the council on Tuesday said the ordinance reflects the city’s values. Read more.

November 24, 2010 - More than 40 people gathered in the courtyard of City Hall to rally on the anniversary of the living wage ordinance. Read more.

November 23, 2010 - Last week, as Council Members gathered for the Stated Meeting, nearly 100 clergy members led a procession and rally in support of living wage legislation Read more.

November 23, 2010 - Opponents may look to repeal local law at today's meeting Read more.

November 23, 2010 - Advocacy groups around the province are calling for cities and corporations to establish a living wage as more B.C. families find themselves struggling to make ends meet. Read more.

November 22, 2010 - Clergy members across NYC recently led a procession of congregations, community groups and union members to demand that the City Council pass the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act. Every year NYC spends approximately two billion dollars, to subsidize develop Read more.

November 22, 2010 - BALTIMORE -- Plans to build a 330,000-square-foot shopping center on landmark ground in north Baltimore can proceed, and so will efforts to impose a living wage. Read more.

November 22, 2010 - This semester, I spent a significant amount of time trying to learn about the lives of workers at OU as a member of the student coalition behind the Living Wage for OU campaign. Read more.

November 21, 2010 - One year into its existence, and the Living Wage Campaign is still drawing attention. Read more.

November 19, 2010 - On Wednesday, Nov. 17, nearly 100 clergy members from throughout New York City led a silent procession of congregations, community groups and union members to demand the City Council pass the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act. Read more.

November 19, 2010 - “In the local circumstances, alternative policies that enable people to move out of low income or poverty would be more effective than introducing the concept of a living wage,” said Joe Farrugia, director general of the Malta Employers Association, at a Read more.

November 19, 2010 - BANKERS receiving big bonuses this Christmas have a ‘moral duty’ to donate at least some of their wealth, according to Boris Johnson. Read more.

November 18, 2010 - Union members joined 300 marchers, including clergy representing all of New York’s major faiths, in a silent procession from St. Peter’s Church near Ground Zero to City Hall. Read more.

November 18, 2010 - Living Wages. It’s a phrase that’s been loosely thrown around campus since the beginning of the school year. The aggressive, student-run Living Wage Coalition posted signs demanding “Living wages now!” and accused College of William and Mary President Tay Read more.

November 17, 2010 - CITY HALL — Nearly 100 clergy members marched silently to the City Council chambers Wednesday to demand that officials pass a bill that would force developers who get city cash to pay workers a so-called "living wage." Read more.

November 17, 2010 - Companies like Bank of America Merrill Lynch, L'Oreal and JP Morgan have signed up to ensure all staff on their books earn at least £7.85 an hour - the London Living Wage. Read more.

November 17, 2010 - A WEEK ago, the country was in the throes of an avoidable warning strike. It centered around a six-month agreement to pay N18,000 as the new minimum wage in the country. Read more.

November 16, 2010 - A leading London Assembly Member has called on Mayor of London Boris Johnson to “step up the pressure” on central and local Government to adopt the London Living Wage for public sector and departmental contract workers in the capital. Read more.

November 16, 2010 - At the living wage rally last month, students protested what they called the unfairly low wages of many University workers. But not one of those workers joined the students and faculty members speaking at the event, and for the past few years, they have n Read more.

November 15, 2010 - Should we tear down the city's middle class? Or work to turn lousy jobs into good ones? That's the policy choice facing New York's city and state leaders. Read more.

November 15, 2010 - Cleaners and academic staff at the University of East London won a campaign today to introduce the London living wage (LLW). Read more.

November 12, 2010 - A proposal to expand New Haven’s living wage ordinance, co-sponsored by Ward 1 Alderman Mile Jones ’11, is stalled at the Board of Aldermen. Read more.

November 12, 2010 - When Michael Bloomberg came into office in 2002, about 20% of private property rolls in the entire city had some kind of tax exemption. By last year, that had grown to more than 25%, the city's annual tax reports show. Read more.

November 11, 2010 - WILLIAMSBURG -- On Nov. 18, students, workers, faculty, and community members will gather on the Sadler Center Terrace for its own "Rally to Restore Sanity" at William & Mary. Read more.

November 10, 2010 - Labor and community groups gathered at Queens Center Mall recently to raise awareness about what they call the horror of working in retail. Read more.

November 9, 2010 - The push for higher entry-level wages raises significant questions about the University’s system for contracted workers Read more.

November 9, 2010 - Three top city officials, each rumored to have their eye on a mayoral run in 2013, directly challenged Mayor Bloomberg on Monday over a living wage bill in the City Council. Read more.

November 9, 2010 - Hundreds of low-paid workers at a Scottish local authority could see their salaries rise as councillors hold a special meeting today to discuss the introduction of a £7-an-hour living wage. Read more.

November 8, 2010 - In June, the city's Industrial Development Agency decided to pay $1 million to economists to study a living wage proposal for workers on city-backed developments. But now, Agency board members Comptroller John Liu, Manhattan Borough President Scott String Read more.

November 8, 2010 - The Bloomberg administration has stacked the deck on a study of whether workers should be paid a "living wage" on city-backed developments, three city pols claim. Read more.

November 7, 2010 - The next time you are about to buy a T-shirt, you may want to stop and consider the clothing label it was made by. Read more.

November 6, 2010 - In my reporting, I regularly travel to banana republics notorious for their inequality. In some of these plutocracies, the richest 1 percent of the population gobbles up 20 percent of the national pie. Read more.