March 31, 2014
Readers: Leave Mass. minimum wage alone
There's growing sentiment among state lawmakers to raise the minimum hourly wage from its current $8. The Senate has passed a bill that would gradually raise it to $11 by 2016. Meanwhile, House Speaker Robert DeLeo said the House would entertain a bill that would raise the wage to $10.50 by 2016, and reform the unemployment insurance system, freezing the rates Massachusetts employers pay. (The Senate has rejected such a freeze.) While DeLeo's plan would not tie future increases in the wage to inflation, the Senate bill includes that provision. But in our Flash Poll for the week of March 17, most respondents said the Legislature should leave the wage alone.
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