Universal Living Wage

Universal Living Wage The Bigger Picture, May 2018 Austin Mayor, Steve Adler says to end homelessness, we must expand the Convention Center, employ minimum wage workers, create low-income housing and a permanent funding stream…brilliant! Nationwide, the epi-center...

Notes on the Universal Living Wage Concept

Work Richard R. Troxell, President of House the Homeless, Inc., is one of those people who almost has too much common sense. While everybody is frantic about jobs being outsourced, Richard asks us to think about what kinds of jobs can’t be outsourced. People who cut...

America Needs the Universal Living Wage

In Emeryville (in California’s Bay Area) the City Council decided to incrementally raise its minimum wage for workplaces with 55 or fewer employees. It went to $13 per hour in 2016, then $14 the next year, and $15 in 2018, and this coming July it goes up to $16. Yes,...

About the Universal Living Wage

We recommend The Universal Living Wage Whitepaper, the comprehensive guide to an idea whose time has come, written by House the Homeless co-founder Richard R. Troxell, which can be read online or downloaded. There is a lot to absorb, but the basic ideas are easily...