The Community, Faith and Labor Coalition , an affiliate of Interfaith Worker Justice, is an Indianapolis and Marion county advocate group formed in 2000 to be a voice for economic and social justice in Indiana.
With the working families platform outlined by the new administration and Interfaith Worker Justice's mission to involve the religious community in our nation's critical issues, we are, now more than ever before, able to move forward an agenda that can help workers now and put in place structures that can support workers in coming decades.
Right now, we are working in Indiana to pass the Employee Free Choice Act. We need 100 Indiana faith leaders to sign a letter of support and delegations to speak to Senator Evan Bayh. We are working to get Op-ed letters and letters to editors in Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Bloomington, Evansville, Ft. Wayne, South Bend, Connorsville, Kokomo, Anderson, and Lafayette to publicize the effort and increase support throughout the state. Email our President, Nancy Holle, if you'd like more information on what you can do to support this important issue.
Watch this video from Kim Bobo, Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, talking about the importance of the Employee Free Choice Act:
CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY TOLL FREE AT
1-866-207-2060
URGE THEM TO CO-SPONSOR AND SUPPORT
THE EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACTFor more information and ways you can get involved:
- Elwood Black Sr. Scholarship Fund
- Read about the Living Wage issue
- Look at Kids Count Data on Indiana Children Living in Poverty
- Read about AFSCME's Efforts Against Privitization
- Join Working America
- Campaigns and Education Efforts
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We appreciate your support.
Please make tax deductible donations by check payable to:
Community, Faith and Labor Coalition
Treasurer
8908 Nora Woods Dr.
Indianapolis, IN 46240
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*Community, Faith and Labor Coalition is a 501-C-3 organization.
More Evidence Shows Economic Rules are Rigged The next time someone tells you they think our economy is fair, here's new proof that it's not. |  |
In fact, just between 2005 and 2006, average income adjusted for inflation of the top 1 percent grew by $73,000 (or 7 percent), while the average income of the bottom 90 percent grew by just $20 (or 0.1 percent). (In 2006, the top 1 percent were those with incomes above $375,000, and the bottom 90 percent were those with incomes below $105,000.)
So, what does it tell us that incomes are growing faster for those at the top? Clearly the rules that govern income growth in our economy are rigged in favor of the already rich.
But it doesn't have to be this way. The same data show that in the three decades after World War II, things were reversed: incomes for the top 1 percent grew only 25 percent, while for the bottom 90 percent they grew 92 percent.
Among the rules that changed between then and now are union-busting, trade liberalization, deregulation, and tilted tax policies. Time to change them back?
A recent Gallup poll reports that a record percentage of Americans see themselves as worse off financially in 2008 than they were in 2007.
A survey conducted in May and June 2008 by Working America reveals that what working women need most is a pay raise.
