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    Chicago set to raise minimum wage to $13

    Chicago set to raise minimum wage to $13

    Chicago set to raise minimum wage to $13; Mayor Emanuel fast-tracks plan amid re-election bid

    By Sara Burnett, Associated Press3 minutes ago

    CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago is set to become the latest U.S. city to raise its minimum wage, as Mayor Rahm Emanuel fast-tracks a politically popular plan to reach $13 per hour amid his bid for a second term and criticism that he is out-of-touch with working people.

    A Chicago City Council committee voted late Monday to advance the plan, which is expected to get full council approval Tuesday.


    The mayor moved the meeting up from Dec. 10 following concerns that the Illinois Legislature would bow to business groups and pass a measure this week that would prevent cities from setting their wage higher than the state.

    Chicago currently has the same minimum wage as the state, at $8.25 per hour. The General Assembly is considering raising Illinois' wage to $11 by 2017.


    Emanuel, the hard-charging former White House chief of staff, is facing a challenge from progressive candidates who say he has been too cozy with business interests and hasn't spent as much time looking out for people struggling to make ends meet in the nation's third-largest city. His top rivals in the February election, Cook County Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia and Alderman Bob Fioretti, favor a $15 wage.


    Chicago is the latest city to bypass a state legislature and seek action on the issue. Earlier this year, Seattle officials voted to phase in a $15-per-hour wage. Portland, Maine, and Louisville are considering increases.


    Business groups and some Republicans argue that raising the minimum wage will lead to job losses. Leaders of several groups, including the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, say setting Chicago's wage higher than the rest of the state will put city businesses at a disadvantage, particularly in areas that border suburbs where the wage would be lower.

    They support a statewide increase to $10 to $11 per hour.


    "Chicago is not an island, and we've got to quit pretending that we are," said Rob Karr, president and CEO of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association.


    But the measures remain popular with voters. Oakland and San Francisco voters supported increases on Nov. 4, as did voters in all four states that had binding ballot measures: Alaska, Arkansas, South Dakota and Nebraska.


    Emanuel settled on $13 per hour after a recommendation from a task force he created earlier this year, when there was still a chance a stronger progressive candidate would take him on.


    He said he wanted to wait until after a Nov. 4 referendum on whether Illinois should raise its wage to $10, a measure widely considered a Democratic Party attempt to spur turnout during a tight gubernatorial election. In Chicago, roughly 87.8 percent of voters said yes.


    Meanwhile, Emanuel followed President Barack Obama's example and signed an executive order in September that requires city contractors to pay workers $13 per hour.


    "Throughout my life I have believed that if you work no child should be raised in poverty," Emanuel said then. "Work should pay. People need a pay raise."


    Chicago's measure would increase the wage to $10 next year, then incrementally to $13 by 2019.

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    Minimum wage increase wins in four red states

    By MARIANNE LEVINE and TIMOTHY NOAH | 11/5/14 1:57 AM EST Updated: 11/10/14 1:13 AM EST

    The passage of minimum wage ballot initiatives in three red-leaning states — Arkansas, Nebraska and South Dakota — and an expected victory in Alaska provided some rare good news to Democrats in desperate need of some. But as a wedge issue, the minimum wage proved a disappointment.


    The minimum increases won’t improve prospects that Congress will pass President Barack Obama’s proposed federal increase to $10.10, up from the current $7.25. But if Congress, as expected, fails to act, these four state victories may help push the Democrats’s 2016 presidential nominee to call loudly for an increase, as Obama notably did not in 2012.




    Even so, opposition to a minimum wage increase was not particularly damaging to Republican candidates this year in those races where it was most expected to have an impact. In governors races in Illinois and Wisconsin and Senate races in North Carolina and Kentucky, Republicans prevailed. Only in the Iowa Senate race did the Republican winner, Joni Ernst, arguably ride the issue to victory.

    (PHOTOS: Election Day 2014)


    In Arkansas, a measure to raise the state minimum was projected to win by 30 percentage points; in Nebraska by 24; and in South Dakota by six. Illinois’ non-binding advisory referendum to raise the minimum wage also passed by 12 points.


    Strong popular support for raising the minimum wage is nothing new.

    According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), over the past decade most state ballot measures to raise the minimum wage have passed by more than 50 percent. New Jersey’s 2013 ballot initiative to raise the state minimum to $8.25 passed by more than 60 percent, despite opposition from Gov. Chris Christie (whose reelection margin also surpassed 60 percent). In 2006, state initiatives to raise the minimum wage passed by large majorities in Arizona (65.6 percent), Missouri (75.6 percent), Montana (74.2 percent), Nevada (68.4 percent), and Ohio (56.5 percent).


    The biggest gainers from this year’s ballot initiatives on minimum wage are the more than 600,000 workers who will receive raises to $9.75 an hour by 2016 in Alaska; to $8.50 an hour by 2017 in Arkansas; to $9.00 an hour by 2016 in Nebraska; and to $8.50 an hour by 2015 in South Dakota.


    (Follow 2014 midterm elections results)


    But the minimum wage wins also provide some solace to Democrats in an election year that gave them little. Republican candidates, usually opposed to increases in the minimum wage, were pressured into shifting their positions in key races. Alaska Senate candidate Dan Sullivan, Arkansas Senate candidate Tom Cotton, Illinois gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner and Arkansas gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson, all Republicans, ended up coming out in favor of state wage hikes.


    Arun Ivatury, senior campaign strategist for the National Employment Law Project Action Fund, predicted that Republicans won’t help themselves in 2016 if they continue to oppose the federal increase. “They’re going to create enormous headwinds for themselves,” he said, “if they’re seen as the party that opposes the minimum wage.”


    An argument frequently raised against increasing the minimum wage is that it lowers employment. But a string of economic studies over the past two decades saw little or no employment impact when minimums were raised at the federal or state level, leaving most economists reasonably confident that the four state increases won’t be notably detrimental in that regard.


    (WATCH: Election Day 2014 videos)


    Economists are less sanguine about an increase to $15 expected to pass tonight for San Francisco. As with a similar measure passed in June by Seattle’s city council, the increase will be phased in gradually; in San Francisco, it will rise in four increments, reaching $15 in July 2018. Even so, “I would be reluctant to go above $10,” says Harry Holzer, an economist at Georgetown. “At that level you do create incentives for employers either to move jobs or job growth to a lower jurisdiction or to automate more.”


    The Congressional Budget Office predicts that raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 would create about 500,000 job losses. Holzer says that’s a small price to pay, since raising the federal minimum would increase wages for 16 to 24 million people.


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