Looking Up At The Bottom Line: The Struggle For the Living Wage

Looking Up At The Bottom Line by Richard R. Troxell is an intense personal, political, and educational guide through the last 30 years of homelessness in America, a journey which presents Troxell's workable solution to economic homelessness in America: the Universal Living Wage. Richard R. Troxell has been striving to end homelessness since he first witnessed it as a self made mortgage foreclosure preventionist in Philadelphia in the 1980s. Today, Richard Troxell works with people with disabilities and homeless citizens of Austin, TX., as the founder and director of Legal Aid for the Homeless. He is also President and Founder of House the Homeless, Inc. (nonprofit-501c3), which he established in 1989. HtH is comprised of homeless and formerly homeless citizens struggling to protect their civil rights and find solutions that will end homelessness in their lifetime. He is the creator of the economic solution to homelessness: The Universal Living Wage.Remarkable! An energizing, engaging book that can lead to the end of homelessness for over 1,000,000 minimum wage workers. This book takes off where all the other minimum wage, living wage books end.Michael StoopsNational Civil Rights Organizer for theNational Coalition for the Homeless"... the only book on the subject that combines in such depth both personal stories of low wage workers and their families, on the one hand, and analytic arguments about the costs and benefits of living wages, on the other. The idea of indexing wages to housing costs just may be the right way to think about this."Robert PollinAuthor of The Living Wage: Building a Fair EconomyTroxell's accounts of the homeless point to a profound break down in our culture - a society that grows more rootless and disconnected with each passing year. After reading this book your next experience at a highway intersection will be radically changed. The bedraggled figure holding a cardboard sign will not be a complete stranger. You won't be looking at a bum; you'll be seeing another human being and into the brokenness of our culture.Tom SpencerCEO Austin Area Interreligious MinistriesCompassion means to suffer (pati) with (com) another. To suffer with! Unfortunately in today's world the idea of compassion is confused with the liberal notion of charity as opposed to a genuine call to justice. Richard Troxell has shared and taken on the pain of others and battled like a great warrior the institutional mindset that prevents humans from simply doing what is right.Alan GrahamPresident Mobile Loaves & FishesFinally, someone with some common sense! Troxell lays out a plan that will end homelessness for over 1,000,000 minimum wage workers- without costing tax payers a dime. Plus, this is a great read - a compelling activist's tell.Jim HightowerRadio commentator and editor of The Hightower Lowdown... the inspiration and key to Bringing America Home for millions of people through the Universal Living Wage - by indexing employment income to housing costs.Sue Watlov Phillips, M.A., C.S.P.Executive director of Elim Transitional HousingFounder Minnesota and National Coalition for the HomelessTroxell's outstanding advocacy and efforts on behalf of the homeless are legend and truly appreciated by those he helps and those who admire his selfless work.Kirk WatsonTexas State Senator , District 14 Read more