A illustrative – not exhaustive – list of links and references to resources regarding living wage, living wage laws, and living wage policies.
Some useful living wage-related links
U.S. Department of Labor | State Minimum Wage Laws
U.S. Department of Labor | State Minimum Wages for Tipped Employees
Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator
Some peer reviewed articles on living wages and the living wage movement
Editor (unattributed) (2001, September/October). Time for a living wage: An interview with Robert Pollin. Challenge, 44(5), 6-18.
Rossi, Michele M., & Curtis, Karen A. (2013). Aiming at half the target: An argument to replace poverty thresholds with self-sufficiency, or “living wage” standards. Journal of Poverty, 17(1), 110-130.
Smith, Laura. (2015, September). Reforming the minimum wage: Toward a psychological perspective. American Psychologist, 70(6), 557-565.
Some mass media articles about living wages and the living wage movement
Quinton, Sophie (2013, March 25). The Trader Joe’s lesson: How to pay a living wage and still make money in retail. The Atlantic.
Murray, Bobbi. (2001, July 23). Living wage comes of age. The Nation.