Two states and Washington, D.C., will vote on ballot measures pertaining to the minimum wage in this year’s midterm elections.
Currently, the federal minimum wage sits at $7.25 per hour, but over the years, many states have raised that figure through legislation or referendums — some by a significant margin. Raising the minimum wage has proved popular in both blue and red states.
The ballot provision also ends the current system of marrying increases in the minimum wage to inflation.
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