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Tacoma: $15 Local Minimum Wage, $12 or $0 Rise
http://www.thepierceprogressive.org/cityclubminwageprogram
The City Club of Tacoma sponsored a program on 15 Now’s Proposition 1 Initiative and Tacoma City Council’s Proposition 1B Initiative Measure. Lyz Kurnitz-Thurlow, 1st Vice President of The League of Women Voters of Tacoma, moderated the program and explained the details on the ballot.
Liz Thurlow-Kurnitz (1st Vice President of the League of Women Voters)
Voters will see on their ballot two parts. First they will have to choose whether they want any minimum wage at all. Then they need to say which minimum wage option they would prefer: $15 starting right away but exempting businesses with less than $300,000 in revenue, or $12 phased in over three years. It is important to choose which option you prefer, because if the first question passes, then the votes on which option to use will be tallied and the majority of those votes decides which option wins.