Amendment 42 on the fall ballot is a proposal to raise the minimum wage in Colorado. Here's an article about the issue nationwide from Stateline.org. They write, "Voters in a record number of states will decide Nov. 7 whether to hike the minimum wage, continuing an unprecedented two-year trend of state action on an issue that remains bottled up in Congress. Democratic organizers in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Nevada and Ohio succeeded in certifying ballot initiatives that would require employers to pay more than the $5.15-an-hour floor Congress approved in 1996 [^]-and has since refused to raise. Already this year,lawmakers in 11 states -- Arkansas, California, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia -- have enacted new statutes boosting their minimum-wage rates. Of that number, six for the first time increased wages above the federal rate, bringing to 23 the number of states whose lowest-paid workers will make more than the federal minimum."
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Category: Denver November 2006 Election
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