By Megan Brockett
Capital News Service, Feb 11, 2014
Business owners, low-wage workers, economists and community leaders crowded into an overflowing House committee room Tuesday to offer testimony alongside Gov. Martin O’Malley on a handful of proposals seeking to change Maryland’s minimum wage. ... More than 100 witnesses signed up to testify both in support and opposition of a minimum wage increase, lining the walls of the committee room early on and trickling into an overflow room set up down the hall. ...
Other supporters, like Charmington’s Cafe owner Amanda Rothschild, said that a minimum wage increase would benefit small businesses by increasing retention rates and saving businesses money on turnover. Rothschild said a hike would also benefit her business because it would allow more low-wage workers in Baltimore, where her cafe is located, to spend money at her coffee shop. ...
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