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Chile's Ethical Wage Debate Continues. The Santiago Times

Catholic leaders press political and business heads towards a national discussion of fair wages.  August 2007

Reform Jewish Leader Speaks on Minimum Wage. Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

Support for a federal minimum wage increase from a Reform rabbi (June 2006).

Justice and Charity in Wages. Clifford F. Thies

From Religion and Liberty in 1993, an argument that minimum wage laws victimize the poor in some ways and that wage levels are best viewed as moral decisions instead of as legal ones. 

Catholic teaching seen supporting living-wage hike for working poor. William P. Quiqley

From Catholic Online (August 2006), a brief review of papal statements on wages and labor. 

More work needed for Baylor living wage campaign. The Lariat online

Editorial on the stalled living wage campaign at the christian university in Texas. March 2008

The Sabbath and the minimum wage. Jill Williams

Keeping the Sabbath holy requires a fair wage on the other six days of the week.  May 2007

Faith leaders call for living wage, honor King. United Methodist Communications

Leaders gather in Tennessee to honor King's drive for better wages. March 2008

A source that is helpful but not available on-line is the chapter on "Religious Foundations of a Living Wage" in The Case for the Living Wage by Jerold L. Waltman (Algora, 2004).  The chapter describes the roots of living and minimum wage doctrine within mainstream Protestantism, Judaism, evangelical Christianity, and Catholicism.

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