Post by libby on Jan 28, 2016 22:57:49 GMT -6
House Speaker Greg Stumbo’s (D-Prestonsburg) minimum wage increase bill passed in a House committee Thursday just as it had last year before dying in the Senate, but unlike Stumbo, opponents of the increase brought no data backing up their argument.
Much like Lexington’s Urban County Council decision to raise the city’s minimum wage to $10.10 in a three-year phase in, Stumbo’s bill would raise the minimum wage at the same pace affecting more than 55,000 workers throughout the state who make $7.25 per hour or less.
In 2014, South Dakota, Arkansas, Nebraska and Alaska voted to raise minimum wage in addition to eight other states in the last two years which includes West Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont and Rhode Island.
Stumbo testified before the House Labor and Industry Committee emphasizing that despite the perception that most minimum-wage workers are college-age adults, more than half of Kentuckians who make minimum wage or less are 25 and older.
Read more: www.state-journal.com/latest%20headlines/2016/01/28/-10-10-minimum-wage-passes-in-house-committee
Much like Lexington’s Urban County Council decision to raise the city’s minimum wage to $10.10 in a three-year phase in, Stumbo’s bill would raise the minimum wage at the same pace affecting more than 55,000 workers throughout the state who make $7.25 per hour or less.
In 2014, South Dakota, Arkansas, Nebraska and Alaska voted to raise minimum wage in addition to eight other states in the last two years which includes West Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont and Rhode Island.
Stumbo testified before the House Labor and Industry Committee emphasizing that despite the perception that most minimum-wage workers are college-age adults, more than half of Kentuckians who make minimum wage or less are 25 and older.
Read more: www.state-journal.com/latest%20headlines/2016/01/28/-10-10-minimum-wage-passes-in-house-committee