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Patrick signs Mass. minimum wage hike: $9/hr on Jan. 1. $11 by 2017 [View all]
http://www.tauntongazette.com/article/20140626/NEWS/140627272/1994/NEWSPatrick signs Mass. minimum wage hike: $9/hr on Jan. 1. $11 by 2017
BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a law raising the state’s $8 per hour minimum wage to $11 per hour — a high among U.S. states — by 2017.
Patrick told a Statehouse ceremony on Thursday that the new law would provide some relief to low-income workers, while noting it would still not be a “livable wage” for many Massachusetts residents.
The first increase in the minimum wage, to $9 an hour, will take effect on Jan. 1.
Activists had gathered some 350,000 signatures around the state to put a minimum wage increase on the ballot had the law not been passed.
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