Wooohoooo! My birth state (Jim Morrison's, too) pioneers the way to make President Obama's proposal a reality. From The New York Times:
HARTFORD — Connecticut lawmakers on Wednesday became the first in the country to pass legislation that would increase a state’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by 2017, the same rate President Obama wants for the federal minimum wage.
The bill passed the General Assembly, which Democrats control, largely along party lines. It was approved 21 to 14 in the Senate and 87 to 54 in the House.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a Democrat who recently appeared with Mr. Obama and several New England governors to publicize the proposal, said on Wednesday that he would sign the bill into law at the same New Britain restaurant where the president dined earlier this month.
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Big h/t to Sen. Blumenthal (D-CT) for his tweet:
I'm proud that CT has become the 1st state to increase its min. wage to $10.10/hr. Congress should look to CT as an example & #raisethewage.
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