Oxfam America fact sheet – “Climate change could be the single biggest threat to winning the fight against hunger. Yet some food companies are actually making the problem worse. Use your power as a consumer and tell Kellogg and General Mills to help stop climate change from making people hungry.”
This Oxfam report includes an overview of who the working poor are in America, the history of the minimum wage and why it is important to raise the minimum wage.
The map illustrates the percentages of low-wage workers who would benefit from a raise in the minimum wage to $10.10. The darker colors indicate higher concentrations of low-wage workers. Map can be sorted by district, state, and national level, as well as be gender and income level (below the poverty line vs. 200% below the poverty line)
“This foundational tool describes two distinct, but complementary, ways we can put the Gospel in action in response to God’s love: social justice (addressing systemic, root causes of problems that affect many people) and charitable works (short-term, emergency assistance for individuals).”
Interactive powerpoint that allows participants to compete Jeopardy-style and learn more about poverty through a series of true/false questions
A 2000 U.S. Bishops Statement on immigration: “Unity in diversity is the vision that we bishops, as pastors of the Church in the United States, offer to our people as they welcome the new immigrants and refugees who come to our shores.”
Letter written by Bishop Hubbard commending member of the House on co-sponsoring H.761 to remember the murder and commemorating the lives and work of the six Jesuit Priests, their housekeeper and her daughter in El Salvador.
A 2001 U.S. Bishops statement on “seeking to contribute to a national dialogue on climate change by applying the wisdom of Catholic social teaching. The bishops also urge prudent action now on climate change to mitigate its effects on the poor and vulnerable.”
Letter from Archbishop Wenski to the Environmental Protection Agency “on the importance of protecting Creation and poor and vulnerable communities from pollution from existing power plants and from climate change.”
An Invitation to Reflection and Action on Environment in Light of Catholic Social Teaching – A Pastoral Statement of the United States Catholic Conference