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New Jersey,
New Mexico,
North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma,
Pennsylvania,
Tennessee, Virginia,
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NEW: CHART UPDATED 10/31: States & Federal Minimum Wage 2007-09, PDF
REPORTS:
• EARN: Economic Analysis and Research Network State Reports
• Fiscal Policy Institute, New York’s 2005-2007 minimum wage increases:
Good for the state’s workers, good for the economy
• Fiscal Policy
Institute, States
with Minimum Wages above the Federal
Level have had Faster Small Business
and Retail Job Growth
GENERAL
NEWS:
•The Record, Minimum Wage hike proposed for NJ, 12/22/07
• CCH, Florida's minimum wage to go up to $6.79 January 1, 10/29/07
• Herald Tribune (FL), Impact of higher minimum wage in Sarasota unclear: Minimum wage boost for some in Sarasota is up for a vote Nov. 6, 10/26/07
• John Burbank, A fair minimum wage stokes economic growth, Herald (WA), 10/17/07
• CCH, Maine, Montana, Washington announce minimum wage increases, 10/12/07
• hr.blr.com, 6 states adjust minimum wage, 10/9/07
• Bellingham Herald, [Washington] State minimum wage to increase to $8.07, 10/2/07
• Oregon Center for Public Policy, Job Growth Not Dampened by Minimum Wage Raises, Study Shows, 9/19/07
View
more at State
Gen. News Archive and Letters
to the Ed. Sampler
Massachusetts:
Contact Information:
Website:
News:
•
Boston Globe/AP, Housing costs, low wages lead to rise in homeless
families, 10/6/07
• Letter to the Editor: Noah Berger, Higher wage works, Boston
Herald, 6/4/07
• Letter to the Editor: Michelle Burch, Show me who's getting rich
on food donations, Sun Chronicle, 6/2/07
• Eileen
McNamara, Boston Globe, Great
divide is growing, 12/3/06
•
Boston
Globe, For
workers a step toward managing,
8/6/06
•
Derrick
Z. Jackson, Boston Globe, The
divide remains, 8/5/06
•
Boston
Globe, Minimum
wage hike veto rejected, 8/1/06
[min
wage
rises from $6.75 now to $7.50 on 1/1/07
and $8 on 1/1/08]
•
Press
Release: Concerned
Massachusetts Business Leaders
Back Minimum Wage Increase: Thirty CEOs,
Directors and Business
Owners Issue Statement Favoring $8 Wage,
7/25/06
•
Letter
to the Editor: Doug Hammond,
small business owner,
Higher wages an effective strategy,
7/5/06
•
MetroWest
Daily News, Local
businesses back minimum wage
increase, 7/26/06
•
Boston
Globe (AP), Romney
says keeping minimum wage low
preserves jobs for poor, 7/25/06
•
Massachusetts
Budget and Policy Center, Massachusetts'
New
Minimum Wage: $8 in 2008, 7/13/06
•
Boston
Globe, Romney
rejects minimum wage bill, 7/22/06
•
Letter
to the Editor:
Rep. Carl Sciortino, Proud
of wage hike,
Somerville Journal, 7/20/06
•
Boston
Globe, Minimum
wage hike would boost 36,000 paychecks
south of Boston, 7/20/06
•
Metro
West Daily News (AP), Minimum
wage a platform Romney
can't
ignore,
7/15/06
•
Boston
Globe (AP), Bill
to increase minimum wage sent to governor,
7/13/06
•
Boston
Globe, Deal
is set on minimum wage hike: State accord
would
raise rate to $8 in '08, 7/7/06
•
Boston
Globe, House
votes to raise the minimum wage to $8,
6/30/06
•
Boston
Globe,
Vote
on minimum wage postponed, 6/22/06
•
Boston
Globe Editorial,
Toward
an $8.25 minimum, 6/20/06
•
Springfield
Republican, Study:
Poverty high in region, 6/20/06
•
Adrian
Walker, Boston Globe, A
life buoy for the poor, 6/19/06
•
Op-Ed:
Catherine D'Amato, Raising
hunger awareness in
Massachusetts,
Metro West Daily News, 6/4/06
•
North
Shore Sunday, New
wage thinking, 6/3/06
•
Springfield
Republican Editorial, At
the very minimum, workers
need
a raise, 5/30/06
•
Boston
Globe (AP), Senate
plan would raise [MA] minimum
wage
by
$1.50 per hour, 5/25/06
•
Daily
Item (Lynn), Many
would benefit from minimum wage
increase,
report says, 5/24/06
•
Massachusetts
Budget and Policy Center, The
Regional Impact
of
An Increase in Massachusetts' Minimum
Wage, 5/06
•
Boston
Globe
Editorial, Rent
Money, 5/10/06
•
Boston
Globe, Signing
of health care law opens gates for dozens
of
stuck bills [incl. min wage], 4/18/06
•
Periódico Siglo
21 Editorial, Hunger
in Massachusetts: President
Bush's
economic model, 4/5-12/06
•
Arlington
Advocate/State House News Service, Minimum-wage
increase
supporters are hopeful, 3/30/06
•
Boston
Globe
Editorial, The
Wages of Poverty, 3/27/06
•
The
Republican (Springfield) Editorial,
State
minimum wage needs
to
take a hike, 3/26/06
•
Massachusetts
Budget and Policy Center, Minimum
wage increase
could
help close to half a million low-wage
workers, 3/20/06
•
Worcester
Telegram & Gazette (MA), Bill
aims to raise minimum
wage;
house panel seeks hike to $7.25,
3/14/06
•
Metrowest
Daily News (MA) Editorial, As
the Income Gap Widens,
2/6/06
Michigan:
Contact Information: Let
Justice Roll Michigan
Website:
News:
•
Detroit
News (AP), State
Senate passes bill limiting OT e ligibility,
6/27/06
•
mlive.com
(AP), Granholm
signs bill to boost minimum wage,
3/28/06
•
Detroit
News, Wage
hike bill passes, 3/15/06
•
Detroit
Free Press,
Workers
to get 44% bump in pay: $7.40 minimum
passes
Michigan Senate to surprise, praise,
3/10/06
•
Lansing State Journal,
List
of ballot initiatives could be longest
since
'78, 3/10/06
•
Detroit Free Press
Editorial, A
Vision for All [cites MLK support
for
living wage],
1/16/06
Missouri:
Contact Information: St.
Louis Jobs with Justice
Website: http://www.stl-jwj.org/
TEXT:
Proposition
B
News:
• Op-Ed: Spencer Barrett, Families need much more than current
minimum, Kansas City Star, 8/1/07
• Brennan Center, Missouri Court rejects attempt to block minimum
wage for tipped workers, 5/25/07
• Kansas City Star Editorial, Don't ruin wage law, 4/12/07
•
Laura
Scott, Kansas City Star, When
voters speak, officials should
listen, 11/20/06
•
Yes
Vote 76%
CNN
Exit Poll
•
Sylvester
Brown Jr, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Increasing
minimum
wage would make dollars, sense,
11/2/06
•
St.
Louis Review, Voters
to decide on minimum wage, 11/3/06
•
Bell Policy Center, Indexing,
Inflation and the Minimum Wage,
10/31/06
•
Kansas
City Star Editorial, Vote
yes for a minimum wage increase
for Missouri workers, 10/27/06
•
PBS
News Hour, Missouri
debates minimum wage on November
ballot, 10/18/06. Quotes Vintage
Vinyl Co-Owner Lew Prince,
inaugural signer, Business
Owners & Executives for a Higher
Minimum
Wage
•
Diane
Stafford, Kansas City Star,
[Business] Backing
for a living
wage, 10/19/06
•
Jobs
with Justice, Missouri
Supreme Court strikes down Voter ID
law,
10/16/06
•
Columbia
Missourian, Some
Columbia business owners voice
support for minimum wage increase,
10/17/06
•
St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, Should
a job pay this much, 10/14/06
•
Diane
Stafford, Kansas City Star,
Economists
favor minimum wage
raise, 10/12/06
•
Kansas
City Star/AP, Campaigns
around measure to raise minimum
wage pick up pace, 10/11/06
•
Springfield
News-Leader Editorial, Minimum
wage deserves hike,
10/8/06
•
Columbia
Missourian, Low
income means low odds of voting,
10/4/06
•
Op-Ed:
John Sweeney and Hugh McVey,
Voters
can help Missouri
workers with a yes vote, Kansas
City Star, 9/29/06
•
Springfield
News-Leader, Study:
1 in 10 would benefit [from
min
wage increase], 9/13/06
•
Kansas
City Star, Wage
debate a duel of data, 9/9/06
•
Economic
Policy Institute, Increasing
Missouri's Minimum Wage,
9/7/06
•
St.
Louis Review, Missouri
Catholic Conference: Wage increase
would benefit Missourians, 9/7/06
•
Brian
Lewis, News Leader, Religious
call goes out to friends of
the working class, 9/6/06
•
KWMU,
On
Labor Day weekend, Missouri
clergy make minimum
wage a moral issue, 9/4/06
•
South
County Times, Sunday's
"Labor in the Pulpits,"
9/1/06
•
St.
Louis Review, Minimum
wage increase heading for Nov. ballot,
8/25/06
•
AARP
Missouri News Release, AARP
endorses initiative to raise
the minimum wage...would benefit estimated
53,000 Missourians
over fifty, 8/24/06
•
Jo
Mannies, St. Louis Post Dispatch,
Traditional
divide emerges
over
minimum wage, 8/17/06
•
Kansas
City Star, Blunt
objects to wage hike, 8/16/06
•
New
York Times Editorial, Voter
suppression in Missouri, 8/10/06
•
Missourian,
Mo.
voters to make decision on wage rate,
8/10/06
•
Kansas
City Star, Labor
group, Catholic Church petition for
wage
increase,
8/10/06
•
Kansas
City Star, Voter
ID prompts lawsuit, 8/4/06
•
Columbia
Daily Tribune,
State
voters get final say on wage
hike, 6/26/06
•
Op-Ed:
William G. Sinkford and Charlie Clements,
Working
poor
need
a living wage, St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
6/26/06
•KBIA
Radio, Missourians
will decide on minimum wage, 6/23/06
•
Springfield
News-Leader,
Voices
of the area's hungry say many
people
suffer in silence, 6/4/06
•
Belleville
News Democrat (AP), AFL-CIO
seeks higher minimum
wage
in Missouri, 5/23/06
•
AFL-CIO
Press Release: AFL-CIO
Members Help Deliver 200,000
Signatures
to Put Minimum Wage Increase on Missouri
Ballot,
Advance
Nationwide Campaign, 5/8/06
•
Lake
Sun Leader (AP), Movement
for minimum wage hike takes
aim
at Missouri ballot, 5/2/06
•
Op-Ed:
Kathy Robinson and Susan Letizia, Kansas
City Star,
Churches
striving to rescue Medicaid, 4/29/06
•
Sylvester
Brown Jr, St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Earth
Day keeps
issues
simple for the likes of me, 4/25/06
•
The
Maneater, U. of Missouri-Columbia
student newspaper, Groups
attempt
to increase minimum wage, 4/25/06
•
Springfield
News-Leader, Edwards
talks moral high road, 4/20/06
•
St.
Louis Post-Dispatch,
Political Fix Blog, House
panel hears
minimum
wage hike, 4/18/06
•
MO
Sec of State News Release: Carnahan
Announces Minimum
Wage
Initiative Petition Approved for Circulation,
3/15/06
•
Diane
Stafford, Kansas City Star,
Missouri
minimum wage hike
sought,
2/2/06
Montana:
Contact Information: Raise
Montana/Let Justice Roll
Website: www.raisemontana.org
TEXT:
Initiative
151
ACTION ALERT:
Montana Business Helping Raise Montana, Window
Sticker
News:
• Jim McGarvey, New company takes away union jobs, wages, Billings
Gazette, 10/20/07
• KULR-8 TV (Billings), Cost of living, 10/4/07
• AP, Minimum wage goes up 10 cents [Jan 2008], 10/3/07
• Op-Ed: Steve Bullock, Standing up for workers pays off for Montana,
Billings Gazette, 9/3/07
• Helena Independent Record, Panel endorses human services budget,
4/1/07
• Billings Gazette, House OKs freeze in lowest pay for servers, 2/24/07
•
Helena
Independent Record, Montanans'
food bank visits soar,
11/22/06
•
Yes
Vote 73% CNN
Exit Poll
•
Op-Ed: Erik Thorson, I-151
A faithful effort to boost lowest-paid
workers, Billings Gazette,
11/5/06
•
Billings
Gazette, Minimum
wage increase receives strong support,
11/5/06
•
Helena
Independent Record, Inside
Helena's labor crunch, 10/29/06.
Quotes Helena Taco del Sol owner
Shalon Hastings, inaugural signer
of Business
Owners & Executives for a Higher
Minimum Wage.
•
AP,
Restaurants
[chains] funding campaign against
minimum wage
increase, 10/26/06
•
Missoulian,
Lobbyist,
minimum wage items up in polls,
10/2/06
•
Missoula Independent,
A
holy war on poverty: Faith groups rally
for
a rise in the minimum wage, 9/21/06
•
Op-Ed:
Christine Kaufman, Montana
workers deserve both respect
and a raise, Billings Gazette,
9/17/06
•
The
Policy Institute and the Montana Human
Rights Network, No,
Really...What Would Jesus Do? Wealth,
Taxes and the Minimum
Wage, 9/06
•
Billings
Gazette, Report
calls wage gap un-Christian, 9/8/06
•
Helena
Independent Record, Business
groups organize coalition
to oppose minimum wage hike, 9/2/06
•
Helena
Independent Record, Hundreds
rally for minimum wage
increase, 8/9/06
•
Billings
Gazette, State
laws may be affected by wage bill,
8/2/06
•
Great
Falls Tribune, "Mainline"
churches seek to wrest debate
from religious conservatives, 7/23/06
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