Sentences with phrase «series of minimum wage increases»

Lawmakers approved a series of minimum wage increases in 2013, the last of which will take the wage to $ 9 at year's end.

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But it has failed to recover in recent years because of a series of policies that increase the burden on small - business owners — higher taxes, increases to health - care costs, more costly regulations, and now the minimum wage increase proposal

This cynical ploy follows a series of recent outrages: free drugs for seniors, a staged increase in the minimum wage to $ 15 an...

The governor identified other issues as priorities for being included within the budget, including increasing the minimum wage to $ 10.50 statewide and to $ 11.50 in New York City, a series of tax cuts, and a set of economic and infrastructural revitalization proposals aimed at upstate New York.

The governor laid out a series of issues from tackling the problems of the upstate economy to the need for an increase in the minimum wage.