A toolkit of resources
What’s a living wage and why does it matter? We’ve pulled together some helpful resources on the subject.
Be sure to bookmark this page: we’ll be posting more Ontario-focused reports, videos and educational tools on this resource page in the coming months.
Reports
- Making Ends Meet: Toronto's 2015 Living Wage: report calculating the living wage in Toronto for 2015
- Calcuating a Living Wage for the Waterloo Region: report on the Waterloo Region's living wage calculation
- The Case for a Stronger Fair Wage Policy in Ontario: report analyzing Ontario's fair wage policy since its introduction in 1995
- Making Every Job a Good Job: A Benchmark for Setting Ontario's Minimum Wage: report examining the current minimum wage
- 10 Ways To Close Ontario’s Gender Pay Gap: report looking at Ontario's persistent pay gap between men and women
- Corporate Social Responsibility and a Living Wage: report exploring the possible avenues for cooperation between the living wage movement and the broader corporate social responsibility community
- Enhancing Democratic Citizenship, Deepening Distributive Justice: report looking at the history of the minimum wage and living wage in Ontario and living wage as an essential tool in reducing income inequality
- A Living Wage as a Human Right: report on gender and living wage as a human right
- A Living Wage for Kingston: a report about a living wage in Kingston
- Working for a Living Wage 2012: a report about what it takes to earn a living wage in BC
For more about the living wage campaign in BC: http://livingwageforfamilies.ca/
Factsheets / Infographics
- Making Ends Meet: ten facts about Toronto's living wage
- Minimum vs Living Wage: download this shareable one page fact sheet on the living wage
- How to close the pay gap?: a shareable infographic on the gendered pay gap—done flow chart style
Commentary
- Toronto should pay every city worker a living wage: Tim Maguire and Trish Hennessy's op-ed on living wage campaigns in Ontario
- Toronto couples with kids must make $18.52 per hour each to get by, report finds: A story on Toronto's living wage calculation
- $15 minimum wage movement spills into Canada: Trish Hennessy blogs about the growing movement to raise the minimum wage in Canada
- Make Toronto a living-wage city: Trish Hennessy's 'Big Idea' contribution in the Toronto Star
- What if the minimum wage was a living wage?: Trish Hennessy blogs about BC's living wage movement and what Ontario (and other provinces) can learn from it
- Living wage policy —why municipal governments should lead the way: brief commentary about the living wage campaign in BC
Multimedia
- Working for a Living: A multimedia project on Ontario's living wage campaign
- Making Ends Meet: CCPA-ON economist Kaylie Tiessen explains the calculations behind Toronto's living wage
- The Intersection between Living Wage and Minimum Wage: In this podcast, Trish Hennessy and Adam Vasey discuss the definitions of minimum and living wages, and the correlations between the two.
- Seth Klein on BC's Living Wage: in this video, the Director of CCPA's BC office speaks about his experiences with a living wage policy
- Living Wage for Families Video: a short information video about BC’s living wage campaign
- The Living Wage Movement: Responding to the Low-Wage Economy: a Global Labour Research Centre panel featuring Kaylie Tiessen