Minimum Wage – Minnesota

Minnesota minimum wage hike takes effect, By Nick Woltman, July 31, 2014, St. Paul Pioneer Press: “Minnesota is seeing its first minimum wage increase in nearly a decade. Starting Friday, most of the state’s lowest-paid workers will receive $8 an hour. It’s the first of three annual increases that will push Minnesota’s wage floor from $6.15 an hour — among the lowest in the country — to $9.50 — one of the highest in the country — by 2016. Beginning in 2018, it will be indexed to inflation.The Legislature passed the wage hike in April, but it didn’t happen easily. A months-long political fight ended with votes more or less along party lines in the state Senate and the House of Representatives…”