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Hope you’re enjoying the “spring of deception.” While we’ll likely break temperature records today, we will be back in the 20s before you know it. Before you get outside, let’s hit the news:

The Massachusetts minimum wage reached $15-an-hour last month, the final step of a nearly decade-long “Fight for 15.” However, the group that led the fight isn’t content to stop there. With inflation eating into the gains seen by low-wage workers, the Raise Up coalition is mulling their next move. The question is whether they have enough willing partners on Beacon Hill or have to take the issue to the ballot.

• The problem: Some advocates say $15-an-hour isn’t enough in such an expensive state. According to MIT, the “living wage” here for a single earner with no kids is $21.35 an hour. And the recent 5% increase in the minimum wage (from $14.25 to $15) was less than the inflation rate last year, meaning it actually lost buying power. “It took nearly $18 in November 2022 to buy what $15 bought in June 2018,” Raise Up spokesman Andrew Farnitano said, citing the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
• Go deeper: Radio Boston recently got into the weeds on the gap between the minimum and living wage in Massachusetts.
• The solution? Farnitano says his group is “fully committed” to winning another increase to the minimum wage and — most...

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