www.nccouncilofchurches.org/2006/09/a-living-wage-for-north-carolina-an-introduction/
North Carolina Council of Churches, “A Living Wage for North Carolina: An Introduction,” by Jason R. Jenkins, is a primer on the issue of a living wage from a local, faith-based perspective. It includes facts, biblical quotes, and stories of North Carolina cities that are taking steps towards a living wage.

www.letjusticeroll.org
‘Let Justice Roll’ Living Wage Campaign: Faith and Community Voices Against Poverty is a nonpartisan program of more than one hundred faith-based and community-based organizations, working in support of federal legislation to raise the federal minimum wage and state legislation and ballot initiatives to increase the minimum wage to a living wage at the state and federal level. The website has excellent resources and updates surrounding both federal and states’ minimum wage campaigns.

www.ncjustice.org/?q=node/23
North Carolina Justice Center, “Support for Working Families,” is a website containing practical analysis and insightful reports on living wage issues in North Carolina.

www.livingwagecampaign.org
ACORN’s Living Wage Resource Center is a webpage of the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now. This site contains a brief history of the national living wage movement, background materials such as ordinance summaries and comparisons, drafting tips, research summaries, talking points, and links to other living wage-related sites.

www.pcusa.org/hunger/downloads/hae_session.pdf
This Presbyterian study guide, entitled “Hunger No More: The Worker Deserves a Wage,” can be used for teaching about the importance of living wages from a biblical perspective.

www.iwj.org
Interfaith Worker Justice is an interfaith non-profit organization which appeals to religious values in order to educate, organize, and mobilize the religious community in the U.S. on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers. IWJ believes workers should have the right to organize and to engage in collective bargaining. Because many U.S. workers are being denied these rights, IWJ has a joint partnership with the Department of Labor to help guarantee and enforce these basic rights. Too often the religious community and the labor communities have worked in isolation from one another. IWJ promotes opportunities for labor leaders and people of faith to work together, including workshops and field placements for seminarians, novices, and rabbinical students.

www.livingwage.geog.psu.edu
Living Wage Calculator estimates the cost of living in your community or region. In many American communities, families working in low-wage jobs make insufficient income to live locally given the local cost of living. Community organizers and citizens argue that the prevailing wage offered by the public sector and key businesses should reflect a wage rate required to meet minimum standards of living. The calculator lists typical expenses, the living wage and typical wages for the selected location.

www.epi.org
The Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit Washington D.C. think tank, was created in 1986 to broaden the discussion about economic policy to include the interests of low- and middle-income workers. Today, with global competition expanding, wage inequality rising, and the methods and nature of work changing in fundamental ways, it is as crucial as ever that people who work for a living have a voice in the economic discourse.