minimum wage
"A living wage means being able to put healthy food on the table for your family."
But businesses and the state legislature could deter the proposal.
She accused Republicans of pushing a fruitless partisan agenda at the expense of working Americans.
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Anybody for flexible schedules when a worker's kid is sick?
Her hesitance on $15 may displease progressives -- but it will relieve businesses that are getting bowled over by minimum wage campaigns.
Probably forgot that there aren't that many "former CBO directors," though.
Owners say the wage hike makes sense, given the city's sky-high cost of living.
The mandate would nearly double the wages of many fast-food workers.
State law only requires it to be $9 an hour.