LI Business News: Costco, small biz owners push minimum wage hike

by John Callegari
Long Island Business News, May 24, 2012

A coalition of businesses, large and small, from across New York state joined together today to call on the State Senate to pass a bill increasing the state’s minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50. ...

“The proposal to raise the minimum wage to $8.50 next year and adjust it after that is by any measure very modest, especially in a high-cost state like New York,” said Mark Jaffe, President and CEO of the Greater New York Chamber of Commerce. “Rather than hurting employers, we believe it will help boost the consumer sales that businesses need to keep the recovery going.”

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