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Recommended Reports and Articles
Websites
Extended Bibliography
Self-Sufficiency Standard
http://www.sixstrategies.com/sixstrategies/selfsufficiencystandard.cfm
A project of Wider Opportunities for Women, The Self-Sufficiency
Standard calculates how much money working adults need to meet
their basic needs without subsidies of any kind. Website contains
advocacy resources and self-sufficiency standards by state.
Out of Reach—Housing Wage Data 2005
http://www.nlihc.org/oor2005/
A report compiled by the National Low Income Housing Coalition
compares wages and rents in jurisdictions across the United
States. For each jurisdiction, the report calculates the amount
of money a household must earn in order to afford a rental unit
at the area’s Fair Market Rent (FMR). Data is available by state,
county, Metropolitan Statistical Area, or nonmetro areas.
Economic Policy Institute
http://www.epinet.org
EPI’s website includes a terrific guide to living wage initiatives
and their economic impacts.
The California Budget Project
http://www.cbp.org/2005/0509_mem.pdf
“Making Ends Meet: How Much Does it Cost to Raise a Family in
California”– 2005 edition
A document that reports on the cost of living
and necessary wages to raise a family.
“The Self-Sufficiency Standard for California.”
http://www.sixstrategies.com/files/ACF1A7.pdf
By Diane Pearce and Jennifer Brooks.
San Francisco
http://www.sfgov.org/site/olse_index.asp?id=27458
The Office of Labor Standards Enforcement: Living Wage, Health
and Minimum Wage is responsible for implementation and enforcement.
Website contains access to the ordinance and compliance information
for all relevant parties in several different languages.
Los Angeles
http://www.lacity.org/bca/labor.htm
Contractor Enforcement Section website contains information
on the living wage ordinance and compliance.
Los Angeles County
http://www.lacounty.info/doing_business/living_wage.htm
Berkeley
http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/finance/Purchasing/LivingWageInfo.html
Includes information on living wage certification.
Hayward
http://www.ci.hayward.ca.us/municipal/HMCWEB/
LivingWageOrdinance.pdf
San Jose
http://www.sanjoseca.gov/purchasing/livwage.asp
Santa Cruz
http://www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us/fn/PDF/LivingWageOrdinance.pdf
Thompson, Jeff and Jeff Chapman. The Economic Impact of Local Living Wages. 2006. Briefing Paper #170. Economic Policy Institute.
http://www.epinet.org/briefingpapers/170/bp170.pdf
Reynolds, David. 2003. Living Wage Campaigns: An Activists Guide to Organizing a Movement for Economic Justice. Labor Studies Center, Wayne State University.
http://www.laborstudies.wayne.edu/research/guide2002.pdf
“The Living Wage Movement: Pointing the Way Toward the
High Road”
http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_viewpoints
_lw_movement
By Jared Bernstein
“Higher Wages Lead to More Efficient Service Provision: The
impact of living wage ordinances on the public contracting process.”
http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm?id=306
By Jared Bernstein
“Choosing the High Road: Businesses
That Pay a Living Wage and Prosper.”
http://www.responsiblewealth.org/living_wage/Living_Wage_Report.pdf
By Karen Kraut, Scott Klinger, and Chuck Collins.
“The
Effects of the Living Wage in Baltimore.”
http://www.epinet.org/Workingpapers/BUILD.pdf
By Christopher Niedt, Greg Ruiters, Dana Wise, and Erica Schoenberger.
“The Impact of theDetroit Living Wage Ordinance.”
http://www.laborstudies.wayne.edu/research/1999report.pdf
By David Reynolds, Rachel Pearson, and Jean Vortkampf.
“Impact of Detroit’s Living Wage Law on Non-Profit Organizations.”
http://www.laborstudies.wayne.edu/research/2000report.pdf
By David Reynolds and Jean Vortkamf.
“Living Wages, Poverty, and Basic Needs: Evidence From Santa Monica, California.”
http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/working_papers/
working_papers_1-50/WP33.pdf
By Robert Pollin
“Baltimore’s Living Wage Law: An
Analysis of the Fiscal and Economic Costs of Baltimore City
Ordinance 442,”
http://www.cepr.net/columns/weisbrot_II/baltimore.html
By Mark Weisbrot and Michelle Sfroza-Roderick
The American Legislative Issue Campaign Exchange (ALICE)
http://www.highroadnow.org
ALICE promotes the best local practices in high-wage, low-waste, worker-friendly, publicliy-accountable
economic development. ALICE's website hpes to serve as a collaborative clearinghouse
and legislative hub for local activists, organizations, experts and elected officials
who want a map to take the High Road.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
http://www.livingwagecampaign.org/
ACORN is an organization of 120,000 member families organized
into 600 neighborhood chapters in 45 cities across the country.
This website is a must visit. It contains details on their current
campaigns and provides access to resources and guides for others
that want to engage in a living wage campaign. Links to local
campaigns.
Brennan Center for Justice
http://www.brennancenter.org/programs/living_wage/index.html
Located at NYU School of Law, the Brennan Center’s Economic
Justice Project helps working people, lawmakers and reform coalitions
across the U.S. to design and implement living wage policies
by providing assistance with policy design, economic impact
analysis, legislative drafting, and legal analysis and defense.
The website has information on research and reports, as well
as updates on legislation, litigation and current news.
Center for Community Change
http://www.communitychange.org/about/publications/?page=
economicdevelopment
The CCC provides technical assistance, training and policy support
to low-income community groups. Website contains free downloads
of numerous reports on economic development and policies promoting
good jobs.
Economic Policy Institute
http://www.epinet.org/
Think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies
to achieve a prosperous and fair economy. The website has a
living wage issue guide, which includes facts, figures, and
research publications.
Responsible Wealth
http://www.responsiblewealth.org/living_wage/index.html
Responsible Wealth is a national network of businesspeople,
investors and affluent Americans who are concerned about deepening
economic inequality and are working for widespread prosperity.
Our three primary areas of work are tax fairness, corporate
responsibility and living wages. Website contains answers to
FAQ’s and guides for businesses.
Living Wage for
Colleges and Universities
http://www.campuslivingwage.org/
This website is hosted by ACORN. It focuses on the coalition
of groups campaigning on college and university campuses to
bring about living wages. Information on current campaigns,
links to specific local campaigns, and resource access is available.
Los Angeles Alliance for the New Economy (LAANE)
http://www.laane.org/
LAANE is an organization working to reduce poverty. Through
advocacy, research, organizing, and technical assistance LAANE
strives to bring about a living wage. Their website contains
history on the living wage movement in L.A., information on
their current wide range of campaigns and programs, copies of
living wage ordinances, and connections to various resources.
Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)
http://www.umass.edu/peri/lw.html
Housed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, PERI focuses
one of its programs on Labor Markets and Living Wages. The website
contains several research reports on livening wage laws and
their effects. An extensive link page is also provided.
Welfare Information Network (WIN)
http://www.financeprojectinfo.org/WIN/wages.asp
WIN is a project of The Finance Project, which serves as a clearing
house for information, policy analysis and technical assistance.
This website keeps updated announcements and access to publications.
ACORN. 1998a. Informational document. Living Wage Successes:
A Compilation of Living Wage Policies on the Books.
ACORN. 1998b. Informational document. The Fight for Jobs
and Living Wages.
Baiman, Ron, Joseph Persky, and Nicholas Brunick. 2002. A Step in the Right Direction: An Analysis of the Forecasted Costs and Benefits of the Chicago Living Wage Ordinance. Chicago, Ill.: Center for Urban Economic Development, University of Illinois, Chicago.
Benner, Chris. 1998. Growing Together or Drifting Apart:
Working Families and Business in the New World Economy. San
Jose: Working Partnerships USA.
http://www.atwork.org/wp/lw/index.html
Benner, Chris and Rachel Rosner. 1998. Living Wage: An Opportunity
for San Jose. San Jose: Working Partnerships USA.
http://www.atwork.org/wp/lw/index.html
Brenner, Mark D. 2004. The Economic Impact of Living Wage Ordinances. Working Paper No. 80. Amherst, MA: Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Brenner, Mark D. 2005. The Economic Impact of the Boston Living Wage Ordinance. Industrial Relations. Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 59-83.
Brenner, Mark D., and Stephanie Luce. 2005. Living Wage Laws in Practice: The Boston, New Haven and Hartford Experiences. Amherst, MA: Political Economy Research Institute.
Brecher, Jeremy and Tim Costello, eds. 1990. Building Bridges:
The New Labor and Community Alliance. New York: Monthly
Review Press.
Elmore, Andrew J. 2003. Living Wage Laws & Communities: Smarter Economic Development, Lower Than Expected Costs. Brennan Center for Justice.
Fairris, David, David Runstein, Carolina Briones, and Jessica Goodheart. 2005. The Los Angeles Living Wage Ordinance: Effects on Workers and Employers. Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy.
Fine, Janice. 1998. “Moving Innovation from the Margins to the
Center.” Pp. 119-146 in Mantsios, Gregory, ed. A New Labor
Movement for the New Century. New York: Monthly Review.
HRDI (Human Resources Development Institute). 1998. Economic
Development: A Union Guide to the High Road. Washington,
D.C.: AFL-CIO.
Khalil, Hany and Sandra Hinson. 1998. “The Los Angeles Living
Wage Campaign.” Pp. 18-27 in Public Subsidies, Public Accountability:
Holding Corporations to Labor and Community Standards. New
York: Sustainable America.
Kraut, Karen, Scott Klinger, and Chuck Collins. 2000. Choosing the High Road: Businesses That Pay a Living Wage and Prosper. United for a Fair Economy.
Marcelli, Enrico, and Pascale Joassart. 1998. Prosperity
and Poverty in the New Economy. San Diego: Center on Policy
Initiatives.
Mishel, Lawrence, Jared Bernstein and John Schmidt, eds. 1999.
The State of Working America 1998-99. Washington, DC:
Economic Policy Institute.
More, Paul, Jessica Goodheart, Melanie Myers, David Runsten,
and Rachel Stolier. 1999. Who Benefits from Redevelopment
in Los Angeles? An Evaluation of Commerical Redevelopment Activities
of the 1990’s. Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Labor Research
and Education and Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy.
Nissen, Bruce. 1995. Fighting for Jobs. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press.
Nissen, Bruce. 1999. “Living Wage Campaigns from a ‘Social Movement’
Perspective: The Miami Case.” Paper presented at the conference
of the University and College Labor Educators Association, April
8.
Pollin, Robert. 2002. Santa Monica Living Wage Study: Response to Peer Reviews and Business Critics. Research Report No. 5. Amherst, Mass.: Political Economy Research Institute.
Pollin, Robert. 2005. The Albuquerque Living Wage Proposal: Rough Estimates of How Workers and Businesses Will Be Affected By the Measure. Working Paper #103. Amherst, Mass.: Political Economy Research Institute.
Pollin, Robert and Stephanie Luce. 1998. The Living Wage:
Building a Fair Economy. New York: The New Press.
Reich, Michael. 1999. “Living Wage Study.” Unpublished paper.
Rogers, Joel. 1996. “Labor and Economic Development.” Paper
presented at the conference of the Human Resources Development
Institute, December 7.
Sander, Richard and Sean Lokey. 1998. “The Los Angeles Living
Wage: The First Eighteen Months.” Unpublished paper.
Spain, Selena and Jean Wiley. 1998. “The Living Wage Ordinance:
a First Step in Reducing Poverty.” Clearinghouse Review (Sept-Oct):
252-267.
Voss, Kim and Rachel Sherman. 1998. “Breaking the Iron Law of
Oligarchy: Tactical Innovation and the Revitalization of the
American Labor Movement.” Unpublished manuscript.
Williams, Dana. 2004. Cleveland's Living Wage Law: A Three-Year Review. Cleveland, Ohio: Policy Matters Ohio.
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