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by bcadmin | Feb 6, 2022 | Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Catholic News Service, Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, Church in the US, Minimum wage, Native Americans, News, Poverty, Racism | 0 |
Trying to advance the economic status of American Indians is like playing a game of Monopoly that they can never win, said panelists during a Jan. 30 plenary session of the Jan. 29-Feb. 1 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 16, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, labor, labor movement, Minimum wage, News | 0 |
A study issued Dec. 9 by the Economic Policy Institute shows that even in the tech sector, immigrants are paid less than their U.S. counterparts, though federal law says that’s not supposed to happen.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 30, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, labor movement, Minimum wage, News, President Joe Biden, Workers' rights | 0 |
A Catholic labor advocate welcomed President Joe Biden’s executive order to raise the minimum wage paid by federal contractors to $15 an hour.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 2, 2021 | Church in the US, COVID-19, Economic justice, Initiative for Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, lead, Minimum wage, News, Poverty | 0 |
Lorena Melgarejo remembers a time after her husband died that she couldn’t always be there for her three-year-old child because she couldn’t sacrifice her income.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 2, 2021 | Church in the US, COVID-19, Initiative for Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, lead, Minimum wage, News, Poverty | 0 |
Lorena Melgarejo remembers a time after her husband died that she couldn’t always be there for her three-year-old child because she couldn’t sacrifice her income.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 30, 2020 | Caritas, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, CIDSE, COMECE, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Europe, Minimum wage, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
Catholic groups across Europe have echoed Pope Francis’ call for a universal basic wage as part of recovery plans after the coronavirus pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 25, 2020 | Catholic News Service, Catholic social teaching, Church in the US, Georgetown University, John Carr, Minimum wage, News, Unions, Washington D.C., Workers' rights | 0 |
The gains made by some of the Washington area’s lowest-paid workers require much effort but are necessary in one of the country’s least affordable regions, two worker activists said during a Jan. 22 forum at Georgetown University.
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