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Minnesota's minimum wage rises to $9 per hour Saturday

Minnesota will vault past Illinois, Michigan and South Dakota this week to gain the highest minimum wage in the Midwestern region at $9 an hour, which also will rank among the most-generous state wage floors in the country.

The $1-per-hour bump takes effect Saturday for some 288,000 of Minnesota’s lowest-paid workers, and is the second of a three-stage increase adopted in 2014, when the state had one of the lowest minimum wages in the region. Next August, the wage will jump to $9.50 and will rise automatically with inflation in following years.

http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-s-minimum-wage-rises-to-9-per-hour-saturday/318733281/

 

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