Economic Justice Resources
Updated, comprehensive weblink: US Bishops Resources on the Economy, Labor, and Unemployment
http://www.usccb.org/about/justice-peace-and-human-development/unemploye...
Organizations:
- Catholic Labor Network - CLN is a place for Catholics to learn about the Church's teachings as regards to labor issues, pray for those who are working for economic justice, and share information about events and struggles that may be taking place in their area.
- Interfaith Council on Religion, Race, and Economic & Social Justice - The council addresses the crisis of working poverty and provides a moral framework for the public dialogue regarding race, religion, economic and social justice.
- Interfaith Worker Justice - IWJ is a network of people that educates, organizes, and mobilizes the religious community in the United States on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and conditions for workers, and give voice to workers, especially workers in low-wage jobs.
- Keep Your Home California - a federally funded program to help California homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages. California has received nearly $2 billion in federal funding and is working with housing counselors, servicers and housing advocates to provide assistance that will help prevent avoidable foreclosures and keep Californians in their homes.
- United Farm Workers of America - An organization that strives to provide farm workers and other working people with the inspiration and tools to share in society's bounty.
CCHD:
- Catholic Campaign for Human Development - CCHD is the domestic anti-poverty, social justice program of the U.S. Catholic Bishops. Its mission is to address the root causes of poverty in America through promotion and support of community-controlled, self-help organizations and through transformative education.
- Poverty USA - CCHD helps people lift themselves out of poverty by hosting programs that support self-sufficiency and self-determination for people who are working to bring permanent change to their communities.
- Poverty and Faithjustice, Catholic Campaign for Human Development, 2002
Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County:
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Financial Services programs: Tax EZ program trained volunteers provide free tax preparation service for low-income residents who are eligible for: Earned Income Tax Credits, Financial Education, Individual Development Accounts
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Focus for Work, Employment program: For adults with mental illness
Other Materials:
- Quotations from Catholic Social Teaching on Unions
- Quotations from Catholic Social Teaching on Work and Workers’ Rights
- “The Moral Measure of the Economy,” Chuck Collins & Mary Wright, Orbis Books, 2007
- Poverty in America: A Policy Paper of Catholic Charities USA, 2006