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Two-hour hearing on minimum wage ends without public vote being taken
Senate Bill 15 was already listed on the full Senate agenda for Thursday before the hearing took place.
Talk of raising minimum wage worries restaurants still reeling from COVID-19
Restaurateurs are listening with great alarm to state and national talk about raising minimum wage to $15 an hour. Carl Georigi, CEO of the Platinum Dining Group, says that raising minimum wage from $9.25 an hour to $11 by next year — the first hike a state bill proposes on the way to $15 by 2026 — would …