Des Moines’ minimum wage is higher than you think, By Kevin Hardy, June 14, 2016, Des Moines Register: “S. Ahmed Merchant isn’t too worried about Polk County possibly raising the minimum wage above Iowa’s mandated $7.25 an hour. By December, he plans to pay every employee at his 40 Iowa Jimmy John’s sandwich shops at least $10.50 per hour. Merchant started raising workers’ beginning pay after Johnson County supervisors decided last year to phase in a new minimum wage of $10.10 per hour…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty