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11-09-2016, 04:11 PM #1
Arizona minimum wage will rise to $10 next year
Arizona minimum wage will rise to $10 next year
- By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services
- Updated 27 min ago
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- Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily Star 2014
Protesters outside a Tucson fast-food restaurant on East Grant Road in 2014 called for a higher minimum wage.
Hundreds of thousands of Arizonans are in line for a salary increase come January.
Arizona voters approved Proposition 206, which will raise the minimum wage to $10 next year and then gradually increase it to $12 by 2020, while also requiring some employers to provide three days of paid sick leave.
Preliminary results show it won on a margin of close to 3-to-2 in Tuesday’s election.
The business community mounted only token opposition to the measure, raising less than $40,000 for the campaign at last count.
Proponents, by contrast, collected close to $4.3 million.
Pro-206 campaign manager Bill Scheel has figured there are about 779,000 Arizonans now earning below $12 an hour, or about a quarter of the state workforce.
He also estimated about 934,000 Arizonans are in jobs where there is no paid sick leave.
Proposition 206 is an outgrowth of a 2006 voter-approved law that established Arizona’s first-ever minimum wage, setting it at $6.75 an hour when the federal minimum was $5.15.
The 2006 law also requires annual inflation adjustments, which have pushed the minimum now to $8.05 an hour; it would have gone up another dime automatically in January.
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.
Explaining why the Arizona Chamber of Commerce didn’t mount a stronger campaign against the new measure, which it claims will result in job losses, spokesman Garrick Taylor said:
“Unfortunately, when these things get on the ballot across the country, they’re likely to pass.”
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11-09-2016, 04:14 PM #2
4 States Opt To Raise Minimum Wage; 7 Loosen Marijuana Laws
NPR - 2 hours ago
Full Election 2016 Results ... Raising the minimum wage: Maine, Arizona, Colorado and Washington all voted to increase the minimum wage to at least $12 an hour by 2020.NO AMNESTY
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11-09-2016, 06:40 PM #3
What about all the office workers making $12 - $15 an hour? Who have to dress and speak properly, know how to use computers, greet clients, can spell and type, use computer programs, be professional? Are they going to get a $5 buck increase in wages?
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