What does it take to live on the minimum wage?
- The Self-Sufficiency Standard—Dr. Diana Pearce of the Center for Women’s Welfare at the University of Washington
- The Calculator: Calculate the basic wage needed to live in WA state
- Self Sufficiency-Budget Worksheet
- Family Budget Calculator—The Economic Policy Institute
- What Families Need to Get By—2013 report
- SPENT Online Interactive Game-Simulates the difficult decisions faced by minimum wage earners—Urban Ministries of Durham, NC
- “Can You Live on the Minimum Wage?” interactive resource—The New York Times
The Living Wage Movement
- The Living Wage Movement: Pointing the Way Toward the High Road—The Economic Policy Institute
- What is a Living Wage?—The New York Times
Wages and the Economy
- 2013 Job Gap Study: America’s Changing Economy—The Alliance for a Just Society
- Overlooked and Undercounted Wages, Work and Poverty in Washington State—The Center for Women’s Welfare, University of Washington
- “Minimum Wage: Who Makes It?”–The New York Times (June 2014)
Studies on the impact of raising the minimum wage
- Economic and Equity Outcomes of a $15/hr Minimum Wage in Seattle—Puget Sound SAGE
- Who are Seattle’s Tipped Workers?—Puget Sound SAGE
- Local Minimum Wage Laws: Impacts on Workers, Families and Businesses—UC Berkeley report prepared for the Seattle Income Inequality Advisory Committee
- The Economics of Citywide Minimum Wages: The San Francisco Model—UC Berkeley Institute of Industrial Relations
- Living Wage Campaigns in the Economic Policy Arena: Four Case Studies from California— UC Berkeley Institute of Industrial Relations
- Living Wage Laws and Communities: Smarter Economic Development, Lower Than Expected Costs—The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
Seattle and the $15/hour Minimum Wage Ordinance
Journey Towards a Living Wage 