For 15 years, Donte Lockman had his own business selling clothes and tennis shoes in Baltimore. He ran the business himself and was the only employee but was unable to keep it afloat. Last year, he started working as a ...

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Imagine for a minute that you own a business with locations in Baltimore City and Baltimore County. You employ workers with low- or entry-level skills and pay minimum wage, currently $8.25 (rising to $8.75 on July 1). Some employees work ...

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WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in the nation’s capital approved a $15-an-hour minimum wage on Tuesday, joining numerous other cities and the states of California and New York in mandating pay raises for retail, restaurant and service-industry workers. The D.C. Council unanimously ...

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WASHINGTON — A bill to increase the minimum wage to $15 in the nation’s capital has been revised to have a less dramatic impact on the city’s restaurant industry. A D.C. Council committee is scheduled to vote Wednesday on the ...

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An advocate for a higher minimum wage, MOM’s Organic Market’s founder says the store is trying to lead by example. The Rockville-based grocery chain announced that it’s increasing it minimum wage to $12 per hour, placing it on the higher ...

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Baltimore City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke is proposing an increase in the minimum wage for Baltimore workers to $15 an hour by 2020, following similar measures recently passed in New York and California. Such an increase could raise the pay ...

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NEW YORK — In the aftermath of California and New York becoming the first states to raise the statewide minimum wage to $15, some small businesses with hourly workers are rethinking how they can absorb the increase. The owners of ...

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California and New York are poised to become the highest-paid minimum-wage states in the nation after their governors each reached deals with lawmakers to raise the lowest amount a worker can be paid to a record-shattering $15 an hour. California ...

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ROCKVILLE — A Montgomery County official says he plans to introduce legislation to raise the county’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020. County Council member Marc Elrich tells The Washington Post that he expects to introduce the bill ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s minimum wage is going up a quarter. It increases from $8 to $8.25 on Wednesday. The increase is one of several approved by the Maryland General Assembly last year, when then-Gov. Martin O’Malley made the increase a ...

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