Yaminah Newsom
April 25th 2021
SOWK
Dr Martin
PAPER #5
While there have been living wage protests in this century (Glickman 1997), the current
campaign is targeted to a specific regulation: implementing a municipal measure that raises the
national minimum wage for a particular group of individuals. Covenants like these have been on
the rise since the mid-1990s. By the beginning of 2002, more than 100 states, jurisdictions, and
other bodies had passed living wage regulations, as according Brenner (2003b). According to the
