New York Mayor Calls For U.S.’s Highest Minimum Wage

Bill de Blasio wants the minimum wage to go up to $15 an hour by 2019.

While de Blasio took office promising to push for a change in state law that would allow the city to set its own minimum wage, he laid out concrete steps for how he would like to see the wage raised. In his address, he called to raise it to $13 an hour in 2016 and then increase automatically with inflation after that, eventually bringing the minimum wage to the $15 level. He said such indexing is important because “it means that hardworking New Yorkers won’t have to wait on new action from Albany just to keep pace with inflation.”

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By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.