Minimum wage proposal gets minimum attention, frizzles out during N.J. budget battle
New Jersey’s top Democratic leaders vowed to raise the minimum wage by 17 percent this year, but their proposal has quietly fallen off the agenda during a mad dash to lock up a new budget and a controversial plan to merge the state’s universities.
The minimum wage was a top priority this year for Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver (D-Essex) and Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester), who called an increase long overdue in January when they rolled out the plan.
They conceded today they would miss their July 1 goal to raise the minimum wage but said they would try again later this year. (Rizzo, The Star-Ledger)
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