The Service Employees International Union, which represents 700,000 workers, is seeking to put a measure on the ballot to raise wages to $15 an hour by 2020.
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On Jan. 1, 10 states – Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Rhode Island and Vermont – will implement higher wages. The pay raises also underline the growing gap between statewide wage floors and the federal hourly minimum, which remains $7.25.
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When the increase takes effect on Friday, West Virginia will have the tenth highest minimum wage in the country.
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Sources: National Employment Law Project, PayWizard.org, and the National Conference of State Legislature.
Do modest minimum-wage increases result in lost restaurant jobs, shuttered restaurants and reduced consumer visits?
But some fear the ripple effects of higher pay. “The industry needs time to adjust to this dramatic increase”. Businesses must still ensure tipped employees make at least $8.50 an hour overall.
Nine dollars – that’s the magic number that is the new minimum hourly wage for New York’s workers.
But some economists say a minimum wage boost doesn’t necessarily help alleviate poverty.
Barbara Emerson of Turners Falls said, “It just makes me wonder what else it’s going to impact because if they are giving us more money an hour, what are the other implications of that?” Neumark is a professor of economics and director of the Center for Economics and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine. No cities in Whatcom County will have a higher minimum wage than the state level.
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Meanwhile, an expansion of the state Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income families will be effective tomorrow as well.
