Kansas City Star: Raises are guaranteed for some minimum-wage workers in 2017 and beyond
By Diane Stafford
Kansas City Star, Dec 27, 2016
The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 an hour since mid-2009, the last time that part of the Fair Labor Standards Act was amended. The national law has no provision for automatic increases because of time or inflation. ...
“It’s too often forgotten that employees are also consumers,” said Mike Draper, owner of Raygun LLC in Kansas City and a member of a national business leadership group that supports minimum wage increases.