Maple Heights African American Gazette, March 28, 2013

At Brothers Printing in Cleveland this week, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown called for passage of the Fair Minimum Wage Act, legislation that would raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour in three steps and provide the first minimum wage increase to tipped employees in more than 20 years. ...

Sen. Brown was joined by Brothers Printing owners Joe and Jay Kaufman, of Cleveland, and Synergistic Systems owner Carlynn Canny, of Willoughby Hills, who explained their reasons for supporting an increase in the Federal minimum wage...

Owner of Dempsey’s Restaurant Explains How Paying His Employees a Fair Wage Has Been Good for Business, Calls on His Competitors to do the Same

Sen. Sherrod Brown (OH) Press Release, March 28, 2013

COLUMBUS, OH – Thousands of central Ohio workers would receive a raise under new legislation supported by U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH). Workers and a local business owner joined Brown today in Columbus to call for passage of the Fair Minimum Wage Act, legislation that would raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour in three steps and provide the...

Stevens Point City Times (WI), March 27, 2013

... Secretary of Labor Seth Harris ... will host a roundtable discussion on Wednesday in Milwaukee with low-wage workers and advocates, talking about the president’s plan to raise the minimum wage ...

Margot Dorfman, chief executive of the U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce, supports an increase.

“Raising the minimum wage would increase the tax base and decrease the need for government relief,” she says. A good portion of her 500,000 members, about three-quarters of whom are female business owners, have worked hourly jobs at some point. “Oftentimes the women who...

Owners of Brothers Printing and Synergistic Systems Explain Their Support for Raising the Minimum Wage, Call on Their Competitors to do the Same; Northeast Ohio Workers Would Benefit from Bill, Which Would Raise Minimum Wage to $10.10 an Hour in Three Steps and Provide First Raise for Tipped Workers in 20 Years

Press Release from Sen. Sherrod Brown, March 27, 2013

CLEVELAND, OH – U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) held a press conference today at Brothers Printing to call for passage of the Fair Minimum Wage Act, legislation that would raise the federal minimum wage...

By Heesun Wee, Editor CNBC.com
CNBC, March 26, 2013

The fight over an increase to the minimum wage ... has already begun in Congress. And small employers on both sides of the issue — armed with plenty of Tweets, videos, press releases and data — have entered the fray. ...

backers of a higher minimum wage have been busy too, cobbling together press releases — complete with names, locations and comments from small-business owners. High-profile CEOs of publicly-traded companies such as Costco and Starbucks have also stepped into the minimum-wage debate. ...

Supporters include the...

By Liz Skoczylas
The Post-Journal (Jamestown) and Observer (Dunkirk), March 21, 2013

Gillibrand To Push For $10.10 Federal Minimum Wage; Says Business Will Benefit

Raising the minimum wage in New York state would actually be a positive for small business owners, according to U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

She announced this Tuesday, along with a new effort to increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.10 over the next three years. Additionally, she called for future increases indexed to the rate of inflation. ...

In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for minimum wage...

By James T. Madore
Newsday (LI), March 20, 2013

Advocates of raising the minimum wage Tuesday hailed a tentative deal among the state's top leaders to boost the wage to $9, while opponents were relieved the increase will be phased in. ...

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The tentative deal, to be included in the state's 2013-14 budget, calls for the minimum to climb to $9 an hour by the end of 2015, according to aides to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the Assembly's Democratic majority and the Senate's governing coalition. ...

John J. Corrado, president of Suffolk Transportation Service...

By Casey Seiler, Capitol Bureau Chief
Capitol Confidential, Albany Times Union, March 19, 2013

As Albany grapples with the push to raise the minimum wage statewide, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wants to see the federal wage — which hasn’t gone up in four years — boosted to $10.10 over the next three years, with indexing to inflation for future increases.

In a Tuesday conference call with reporters, the Democrat noted that for low-wage workers the record-high closings for the financial markets “doesn’t put food on the table or gas in their cars — they’re just trying...

By Sarah Meehan
Baltimore Business Journal, March 19, 2013

... a higher minimum wage is not cause for concern at all eateries across the state. Andy Shallal owns Busboys & Poets, which has two locations in Washington, D.C., and one in Hyattsville. ...

“Often times I think we talk about the sky is falling,” Shallal said. “We’re just feeding people a lot of fear and falsehoods.”

The minimum wage in D.C. is already higher than Maryland’s at $8.25, and employees are paid comparably at all three Busboys & Poets locations, Shallal said. There are three tiers...

News 12 Long Island, March 19, 2013

WOODBURY - A state budget agreement is likely near now that lawmakers have reportedly reached a deal to raise New York's minimum wage.

Several Long Island business owners hailed the reported minimum wage agreement ...

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