The National Restaurant Association opposed the minimum-wage increases. The association contended that relatively few minimum-wage workers are trying to support families and that such legislation would be too expensive for restaurants.

Harry J. Holzer is a professor of public policy at Georgetown University, senior fellow at the Urban Institute and nonresident senior fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. He wrote the December 2008 Brookings report “Living Wage Laws: How Much Do (Can) They Matter?”

Jared Bernstein is Vice President Joe Biden’s chief economist and economic policy adviser. Before taking that post, Bernstein was director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank. He is the author of All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy.

The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and Leadership Institute works to elect LGBT leaders to public office in order to change America’s politics for the support of “true equality” for all. Aisha C. Moody-Mills is the president and CEO.

National Center for Transgender Equality is a social justice organization dedicated to the advancement of equality of transgender people through advocacy and empowerment. Contact executive director Mara Keisling.

Jake Horowitz is a project manager of the Pew Center on the States and a public safety expert. He has a background in counseling juvenile offenders and served as a counselor in an alternative-to-incarceration program for young offenders.

June 28, 2013, post in the “On Faith” blog on The Washington Post website by national evangelical leader Richard Cizik. Cizik outlines his conversion to belief in climate change and encourages all evangelical leaders to urge their parishioners to contact their elected representative and ask for action on climate change.

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is a federal department dealing with juvenile offenders and the laws that concern them. It maintains a state-by-state list of juvenile justice specialists. Anna Johnson is the communications coordinator.

The National Juvenile Defender Center has regional centers around the country and maintains state-by-state data on juvenile justice. Sarah Edwards is the development and communications director.