A ballot proposal seeking to raise Michigan’s hourly minimum wage to $15 over several years will appear on the ballot in 2024 after petition signatures were certified, those behind the initiative announced this week.
The Michigan Bureau of Elections has reportedly approved the Raise the Wage MI ballot measure to appear on the ballot in November 2024 after more than 610,000 petition signatures were submitted in 2022. The proposal aims to gradually raise the state’s hourly minimum wage to $15 by 2027, and then allow it to update annually based on the inflation rate in a process called “indexing.”
Recommended Videos
Henry Ford agrees to joint venture with Ascension, will take over its Metro Detroit hospitals
This is a modal window.
No compatible source was found for this media.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, minimum wage is indexed in 18 states and in Washington, D.C., meaning it is “automatically adjusted each year for increases in prices.” Economic analyst David Cooper says that by indexing minimum wage, the hourly salary never loses its value -- and it’s written into law that the wage will rise by a certain amount depending on a specific formula, so politicians are not arbitrarily deciding the number.
One Fair Wage, the national advocacy group leading the initiative, announced on Monday, Oct. 16 that the proposal has been “officially certified for inclusion on the Nov. 5, 2024, ballot” in Michigan. Though petition signatures were gathered and submitted in...
You are reading the second issue of the Disinformation Monitor. It is published on a monthly basis and provides an overview of developments on the disinformation scenes on NATO’s eastern frontier....