Who: The Universal Living Wage Campaign - www.UniversalLivingWage.org for City/State Bridge Locations and CONTACT information.
Why: According to the last several US Conference of Mayors' reports, the federal minimum wage fails to afford anyone rental housing in any major city in America. The 2000 Conference of
Mayors' Report described the federal minimum wage as "the most significant contributing factor of homelessness" (3.5 million people will experience homelessness this year.)
The Universal Living Wage is an initiative to fix the federal minimum wage with a single national formula based on existing government guidelines. It indexes the wage to the local cost of
housing and ensures that anyone working 40 hours a week through a full time or multiple part time jobs, can afford basic rental housing, utilities, food, and clothing, wherever that work
is done throughout the U.S. See