After going up for a second consecutive year to $10.50 per hour at the beginning of 2019, there is talk about adding another 60 cents to the state’s minimum wage in the fiscal 2020 budget. Advocates point to the fact that there is now data that contradicts the long-standing talking point that raising the minimum wage hurts job growth and if low-wage workers take home a little more pay they are more likely to spend it in support of local businesses. Small business associations, meanwhile, continue to believe that increasing the minimum wage will hurt the ability of small businesses to hire and pay for additional workers. Where do you stand on the issue?
