WYPR/ NPR News Station, Baltimore, March 7, 2014
Gov. Martin O’Malley met with small business owners yesterday at Linemark, a printing company in Upper Marlboro. He was there to tout his plan to raise the state’s minimum wage and talk with business owners from around the state. Linemark and the rest of the companies represented at the event pay their workers above the state’s minimum wage.
WYPR’s Christopher Connelly sat down with the governor afterward to talk about the minimum wage, which the House of Delegates will give its final vote on the measure later today.
On the economic case for raising the minimum wage.
“The business owners I talked to today know that when workers earn more money, businesses have more customers, and that’s really how our economy grows. That’s why we made our country the envy of the world. We had the strongest, fastest, most upwardly mobile middle class on the planet just a few decades ago. But we’ve turned away from the formula that made us great.” ...