By Shoham Geva
Michigan Daily, Jan 30, 2014
Five community groups and organizations announced Monday the formation of a new ballot committee, Raise Michigan, which will explore the feasibility of a November ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage in the state. ... In its initial announcement, Raise Michigan outlined three main goals for its campaign: raising the minimum wage from its current rate of $7.40 per hour to a figure between $9 and $10 per hour, raising the minimum wage for restaurant servers and tying the minimum wage to the inflation index. ...
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer said in November that if he’s elected, he plans to raise the state’s minimum wage to $9.25. Thursday, U.S. Rep. John Dingell (D–Mich.) and state Reps. Adam Zemke (D–Ann Arbor) and Jeff Irwin (D–Ann Arbor) held a lunch meeting at Zingerman’s Delicatessen with the shop’s co-owner, Paul Saginaw, to discuss raising the minimum wage.
In their meeting, Zemke said nearly 85 percent of democrats and 50 percent of republicans support raising minimum wage. ...
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