Overview: A Comparison of the Living Wage and the Minimum Wage

Living Wage Laws: How Much Do (Can) They Matter? Brookings Institution

A report summary of how and how much living wage ordinances affect local employment and poverty. 2008

Living Wage Calculator

Produced at Pennsylvania State University, the calculator provides basic living costs for families of different sizes in each state and county, along with comparable poverty lines, the minimum wage, and local occupational wages.

The economic impact of local living wages. Jeff Thompson and Jeff Chapman

From the Economic Policy Institute in 2006, a detailed study of the costs and benefits of living wages.

'Living Wage' Identified for Asia. cawinfo.org

A garment workers' advocacy group calculates a minimum living wage for Asian workiers. October 2009

The Universal Living Wage

The site for the universal living wage movement, which proposes linking all minimum wages to local housing costs.

Maryland launches first statewide living wage. Stateline.org

Informative article on the details of and responses to a state living wage.  August 2007 

Killer Living Wages. National Post

A scathing but informative summary of living wage movements in Canada. November 2008.