HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Low-wage workers, economists and others are pushing Connecticut lawmakers to support legislation that would raise the state's minimum wage during the coming years and eventually tie it to inflation.
The bill, which is being considered by the state's Labor and Public Employees Committee, would raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour, beginning July 2012, and to $9.75 an hour the following year. The bill requires the minimum wage rate to be tied to inflation beginning in July 2014.
If passed, the bill would raise pay for the nearly 106,000 people currently earning minimum wage in Connecticut — more than 80 percent of them over age 20. The bill also would place Connecticut among the states with the highest minimum wage in the country.
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