“Domestic Violence Resource Center: Domestic Violence Statistics”
The Domestic Violence Research Center provides a list of national statistics on domestic violence.
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David Reynolds
David Reynolds is a labor program specialist with the Wayne State University Labor Studies Center in Detroit. He has conducted several studies on living-wage laws and campaigns.
“Domestic Violence Statistics”
Domestic Violence Statistics is an online organization that works to prevent domestic violence by providing resources and educating the general public on what it is and how to stop it.
Aaron Yelowitz
Aaron Yelowitz is an associate professor of economics at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He has written about unintended consequences of living-wage legislation – saying, for example, that paying higher wages can lead to the loss of other benefits for low-income families – and testified as an expert witness in 2004 regarding living-wage legislation in […]
“Breaking the ‘Holy Hush'”
Read a January 2007 Sojourners article on evangelical resources on domestic violence.
“Ending Domestic Violence in Muslim Families”
Read a paper by the late Sharifa Alkhateeb about domestic violence in the Islamic community.
Peter Arcidiancono
Peter Arcidiacono is an assistant professor of economics at Duke University in Durham, N.C. Arcidiacono is the co-author of a 2004 study that concluded that increasing the minimum wage would decrease a worker’s chances of finding employment.
“A Commentary on Religion and Domestic Violence”
Read a 2010 essay by Marie Fortune about the duty of religious organizations to support victims of domestic violence.
Sheila D. Collins
Sheila D. Collins is a political science professor and director of the Master’s Program in Public Policy and International Affairs at William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J. She is a co-founder of the National Jobs for All Coalition and author of Let Them Eat Ketchup: The Politics of Poverty and Inequality. Read a 2005 interview with Collins, in which she […]