States Take the Lead on the Minimum Wage: Ritholtz Chart

[ProSense]

States Take the Lead on the Minimum Wage: Ritholtz Chart

By Barry Ritholtz

Minimum wage policy was a big part of the President Barack Obama's State of the Union address last night. As it turns out, 20 states plus the District of Columbia have minimum wages higher than the federal level. As the Center for Economic and Policy Research notes:

"As of January 1, 2014, 13 states raised their minimum wage, with California set to follow suit with an increase to $9 in July. Of these 14 state increases, 9 are automatic adjustments based on indexing the value of the minimum wage to the cost of living, while 4 (NJ, CT, NY, RI) are the product of either ballot-measures or legislative action."

The accompanying chart shows the details of those increases.



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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-29/states-take-the-lead-on-the-minimum-wage-ritholtz-chart.html

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[Coyotl]

1. Some needs to do stats on elections with minimum wage on the ballot, for turnout and blue swing.

More importantly, we need a $12.00 minimum wage on every possible ballot in November.

A lot of states have initiative and referendum provisions in their Constitution. We need to make the Republicans pay for their alleigence to the 1%ers.

[ProSense]

2. Kick! n/t

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Oregon minimum wage is $9.10 an hour currently.

Washington's is 9.30.....