Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies that Work for All of Us, a project of the Ms. Foundation for Women, was a groundbreaking public education campaign and book authored by Holly Sklar, Director of Business for Shared Prosperity, and Susan Wefald, Executive Vice President & COO of the Ms. Foundation.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH Holly Sklar, co-author of Raise the Floor, a Ms. Foundation project, on Bill Moyers Journal June 13, 2008.
Program Description:
While many Americans are working harder for less money and paying more for everyday items like gas and food, the rich are getting richer. Tonight, Bill Moyers Journal analyzes the growing inequality gap on the ground in Los Angeles where recently union workers marched to bring attention to how they are getting squeezed out of the shrinking middle class. Bill Moyers interviews Holly Sklar, co-author of Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies that Work For All of Us, who discusses what current economic conditions say about the state of the American dream, and Steve Fraser, historian and author of Wall Street: America's Dream Palace, talk about the modern parallels and differences to the first Gilded Age, the big disparity between the rich and poor, and the increasing strain on working Americans.
RAISE THE FLOOR:
Wages And Policies That Work For All Of Us
By Holly Sklar, Laryssa Mykyta & Susan Wefald
"They work full time in the richest nation on earth, yet they can't make ends meet... They are health care aides who can't afford health insurance. They work in the food industry, but depend on food banks to help feed their children." Excerpt İMs. Foundation for Women
Campaign for a Just Minimum Wage:
The Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign, a fast-growing nonpartisan coalition of ninety faith, labor and community organizations, works in support of federal legislation to raise the federal minimum wage and state legislation and ballot initiatives to increase the minimum wage in selected states.
Raising the Minimum Wage in Hard Times [PDF]
By Holly Sklar
11/24/08
Policy Points: Raise the Minimum Wage to $10 in 2010 [PDF]
By Holly Sklar
11/24/08
Minimum Wage Raise Too Little, Too Late
By Holly Sklar
7/22/08
Tax Day Gifts for the Rich
By Holly Sklar
4/15/08
Billionaires Up, America Down
By Holly Sklar
10/18/07
Pay CEOs less, minimum wage workers more
By Holly Sklar
7/19/07
Minimum wage breaks no-raise record
By Holly Sklar
12/1/06
Economy booming for billionaires
By Holly Sklar
9/27/06
Congress Values Own Paychecks More Than Workers
By Holly Sklar
6/20/06
Warning: Tax Cuts for Rich Harm Nation's Health
By Holly Sklar
4/14/06
King would tell Congress to Value Workers
By Holly Sklar
1/5/06
News Coverage
"Be a More Engaged Citizen" Book List
Bill Moyer's Journal Staff
Channel 13 Blog
August 13, 2008
Increase in federal minimum wage is long overdue
Jack Z. Smith
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
March 15, 2005
Minimum Wage Debate
Holly Sklar vs. Richard Berman,
Employment Policies Institute
NPR "Justice Talking"
aired 4/21/03
What Voters Really Want
Robert Kuttner
Boston Globe
2/20/02
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