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Gov. Wes Moore and Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller joined legislative leaders in the State House to sign bills Tuesday, 12 hours after lawmakers wrapped up their legislative session.
Moore applauded the work of lawmakers he described as showing “that we as a state can move differently.”
“It showed that we can move in partnership and showed that once again, Maryland can do big things and Maryland can lead,” Moore told the Governor’s Reception room, packed to the brim with a noticeably more relaxed crowd of legislators, staff, advocates, and other guests.
Moore devoted the majority of his remarks to two laws that aim to alleviate poverty, the Family Prosperity Act of 2023 and the Fair Wage Act of 2023, by increasing the state’s earned income tax credit and raising the minimum wage.
“I entered office saying that this administration would launch the most aggressive, the most strategic, bipartisan, all out assault on child poverty that this state has ever seen,” he said, “the critics underestimated just how united we were going to be.”
The universality of chlid poverty is what made the legislation so successful, he reasoned.
“Child poverty is West Baltimore issue, and it’s a West Annapolis issue. Child poverty is an Eastern Shore issue, and it is a Western Maryland issue. Child poverty is a Washington suburbs...
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