Minimum wages are increasing in nearly half the states this year

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-14 02:45:47 | Updated at 2025-01-17 19:25:42 3 days ago

Minimum wages are increasing in nearly half the states this year
Washington State Standard ^ | January 13, 2025 | Kevin Hardy

Posted on 01/13/2025 6:33:23 PM PST by Salman

The minimum wage will increase in nearly half the states this year even as the federal wage floor remains stuck at $7.25 per hour.

In many states, the minimum wage is automatically adjusted upward as inflation rises. But voters in several states, including deeply red ones such as Alaska and Missouri, chose in November to significantly increase their minimum wages this year.

Michigan will see its minimum wage jump from $10.33 to $12.48 on Feb. 21 after the state Supreme Court concluded the legislature subverted residents when it adopted but then significantly amended voter-initiated ballot measures in 2018 to raise the minimum wage and mandate paid sick time.

Michigan’s wage floor is set to rise to $14.97 by 2028 — more than double the federal minimum wage, which has not increased since 2009. That’s the longest period without a federal increase since Congress first set a minimum wage in 1938.

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1 posted on 01/13/2025 6:33:23 PM PST by Salman

To: Salman

The fact that states seem open to doing this makes the case that a federal minimum wage is really not necessary. One piece of federal overreach that should be allowed to die on the vine.

2 posted on 01/13/2025 6:37:47 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)

To: Salman

3 posted on 01/13/2025 6:37:49 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )

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