By Tom Cornell The Catholic Worker movement is made up of people motivated by the teachings of Jesus, especially as they are summarized in the Sermon on the Mount, and …
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2006
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Starting The Center for the Working Poor: Don’t Mess With God’s Crazy Plan
by centeradminby centeradminBy Paul Engler The Summary I still run the Center for the Working Poor, delivering food to impoverished workers, writing, speaking at churches, and supporting living wage boycotts. While doing …
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The Birth of The Burning Bush: The Center for the Working Poor
by centeradminby centeradminBY PAUL ENGLER Our project is called The Burning Bush: Center for the Working Poor, and has a fancy new website which can be reached at: centerfortheworkingpoor.org. We take our …
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Living Wages
Living Wage for All: A Plan for a New Living Wage Movement
by centeradminby centeradminA public address by Maria Elena Durazo Ancient prophets like Jesus and those prophets of our time, like Martin Luther King, have each told us, “We will be judged by …
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-John Lorinc The people who make up your fancy hotel room are invisible, but powerful – now that they’ve realized they can put downtown economies through the wringer Every morning …
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The Catholic Worker Movement
by centeradminby centeradminThis essay was written by Jim Forest on the Catholic Worker Movement for The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History to be published by the Liturgical Press. Jim Forest, once a …
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Wal-Mart, Largest Employer of the Working poor, is losing Public Support
by centeradminby centeradminWal-Mart has been closely watched by many corporate leaders that see it as a model for the new Economy: rapid growth, poverty wages, few health benefits, no unions, race and …