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Click on Links to review Local Media Coverage Living in the Gap: How the working poor slip through the cracks… from Times-Georgian, Carroll County 3 in 10 Georgia Families Scrape to Get By from AJC.com Small Boost, Big Dream from AJC.com Minimum Wage Rises from AJC.com New Floor Set for Wages from AJC.com Minimum Wage Increase Still Not Enough from Marietta Daily Journal online
Georgia Lags in Minimum Wage from The Florida Times-Union
Coalition Seeks to Raise Minimum Wage in Georgia from the Clayton Daily News Online
Coalition Seeks to Raise Minimum Wage in Georgia from the Henry Daily Herald Online |
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Minimum Wage Links |
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YouTube Videos Restore the minimum wage for tipped workers to 60% of the minimum wage! Show Your Server Some Love. Family Day 2007: Georgia labor activists and allies rally at City Hall to call for an increase to the minimum wage |
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This article, about a poll conducted by the Atlanta Women’s Foundation between January 31 and February 8, 2008, states the desire of the majority of Georgians to raise the state’s minimum wage to the federal level. |
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Report: Strengthening The Foundation The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute released this report in August 2008, stating that a “Georgia minimum wage increase would benefit hundreds of thousands of workers and children.” |
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University of Georgia Poll Results This poll, conducted by the Survey Research Center at the University of Georgia in September and October, 2006, displays the attitudes of Georgians toward many issues regarding the state minimum wage. |
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Find answers to many common questions asked about the minimum wage in Georgia! |
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This Atlanta-based organization seeks to involve more women in the legislative process by organizing groups to lobby at the state Capitol. They lobby weekly during the legislative session; 2009’s begins on January 12th. |
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States with Minimum Wages above the Federal level have had Faster Small Business and Retail Job Growth (PDF). This updated report from the Fiscal Policy Institute shows that the diverse set of states with minimum wages above the federal $5.15 level have had faster job growth among small businesses and in the retail trade sector than states where the lower federal minimum prevailed. |
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Report: Self Sufficiency Standard for Georgia, This Nov. 2008 report provides county-by-county data on the wages and income needed by Georgia families to be self-sufficient. It is authored by Dr. Diana Pearce of the University of Washington and supported by the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta, Women’s Policy Group, Voices for Georgia’s Children, Georgia Family Connection Partnership, Georgia State Trade Association of Nonprofit Developers, and Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. |
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Raising the Minimum Wage in Hard Times Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign By Holly Sklar, Sr. Policy Advisor, November 2008 |
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Raise minimum wage to help impoverished from the Gwinnett Daily Post, March 2, 2009. An op-ed piece by one our faith-based supporters, Rev. Andy Acton of Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church in Duluth. |