Valuing Investments in Poverty-Reduction: Hooray New Westminster - National Council on Welfare’s Bibliography – This resource is a comprehensive bibliography of Canadian, American and international studies that demonstrate how much poverty costs us in other areas of spending like health, education and justice.

Bringing Minimum Wages Above the Poverty Line - Minimumwages do not imply living wages, and with the majority of Canadians agreeing that the government must reduce poverty and income inequality, raising the minimum wage seems like an obvious course of action. Read the summary report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives here or download the full version here. [Source: CSRL Newsletter]

Thirty Years of Dwindling Minimum Wages in Canada - The real value of the minimum wage everywhere in Canada is now not just far below the poverty line, but also far below what it was thirty years ago, according to the CUPE Economic Brief. Read the full report here. [Source: CSRL-news]

Movement Mobilizes Values Voters with Hundreds of Minimum Wage Events Across U.S. - As the U.S. Congress stalls on raising the minimum wage, the national Let Justice Roll Campaign held hundreds of rallies, workshops, religious services and prayer breakfasts to build support for raising the minimum wage at the state and federal level. Let Justice Roll, a fast-growing nonpartisan partnership of more than 80 faith and community groups, is working to pass minimum wage ballot measures in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Montana and Ohio. Learn more here. [Source: HandsNet WebClipper]

Living Wages Boost Incomes with Few Side Effects - A new briefing paper from the Economic Policy Institute examines the effects of living wage policies on wages, employment, businesses, and municipal budgets. Read the briefing paper here. [Source: Alliance Online News]

Report Confirms Benefits of Santa Monica Living Wage - A new report by University of Massachusetts Amherst Professors confirms that Santa Monica's living wage law will provide substantial benefits to low-income workers, and that affected businesses can readily afford the higher wages. The analysis comes a week after 120 economists from colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad endorsed Measure JJ, Santa Monica's living wage referendum, which will appear on the November 5 ballot. The unprecedented endorsement from economists for local wage legislation includes many prominent academics. Read the report here. [Source: HandsNet WebClipper]