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fizzgig

(24,146 posts)
Mon Mar 23, 2015, 01:29 PM Mar 2015

Minimum wage debate begins at Colorado Legislature

DENVER (AP) — A Democratic push to raise the minimum wage in Colorado gets started this week at the Capitol.

Two bills up for a hearing Monday afternoon could lead to raises for minimum wage workers.

The first would ask voters whether the wage should be raised gradually over the next five years. The ballot measure would set a wage of $9.50 starting in 2017, then going up a dollar an hour each year until the minimum wage is $12.50 an hour by the year 2020.

The second bill would allow local governments to set their own minimum wages in excess of the state minimum wage. Cities and counties are currently prohibited by law from doing that.


from the denver post, but no additional info at the link.

husband and i both currently make $12.50 and it's pretty livable if you are able to find affordable housing and are in a two-income family. if i were single, i'd either be in my dad's basement or sharing a house two or three other people.

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Minimum wage debate begins at Colorado Legislature (Original Post) fizzgig Mar 2015 OP
My daughter is making $13/hr and living in our basement mountain grammy Mar 2015 #1
yeah, i couldn't imagine trying to exist in a resort community fizzgig Mar 2015 #2

mountain grammy

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1. My daughter is making $13/hr and living in our basement
Mon Mar 23, 2015, 02:34 PM
Mar 2015

paying an affordable rent. We are not happy about it, but affordable housing is nearly non existent in a resort community.

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