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LEARN, LOVE, ACT: The Morals of Minimum Wage Program # 318 UUA General Assembly 2014 Providence, Rhode Island
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What is the minimum wage?
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2007…2009…2014
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Agenda Welcome Panel presentation Clarifying questions for the panel Where we go from here, what we can do? Small working groups based on state Report back from small groups
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Panel Rev. Michael F. Hall, Minister Keene Unitarian Universalist Church Rev. David Carl Olson, Minister, First Unitarian Church of Baltimore, UU Legislative Ministry of Maryland Alex Kapitan, UUA Congregational Advocacy and Witness Program Coordinator Multicultural Growth and Witness
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Clarifying Questions for the Panel Advancing Human Rights is the Work of Many Joining Hands
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Tipped minimum wage by state
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Gender and the Minimum Wage
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Race and Minimum Wage
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Families and the minimum wage
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Map of Minimum Wage: Oxfam http://policy-practice.oxfamamerica.org/work/poverty-in-the- us/minimum-wage-map/
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What does a raise to $10.10 mean in real terms? http://www.whitehouse.gov/raise-the-wage
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What we can do about it? Encourage Congress to pass the Minimum Wage Fairness Act Support state and local campaigns to raise the minimum wage and support workers’ rights! Use our power as consumers: speak up when you eat out!
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Encourage Congress to Act: Advancing Human Rights is the Work of Many Joining Hands www.govtrack.us
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Join local campaigns:
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Be a compassionate consumer:
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Action Planning: What is my contribution? What do I commit to do? Who in my congregation can support me? Who in our community can we join? What are my action steps?
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