ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s minimum wage would rise to $15 over several years under a measure before state lawmakers. Del. Jeffrey Waldstreicher, a Montgomery County Democrat, outlined the bill Tuesday before a House committee. Maryland’s minimum wage is now set to ...

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Mayor Catherine Pugh faces an early challenge deciding whether to sign a bill eventually increasing Baltimore’s minimum wage to $15 an hour that’s popular with voters but opposed by businesses with whom she’s sought an improved relationship. The bill, which ...

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Despite pushback from businesses that say the plan will be “devastating” to them, Baltimore City Council members want to eventually raise the minimum wage in the city to $15 an hour. City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young, at a ...

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Baltimore City Council members teed off on fellow Democrats in Annapolis for backing legislation preventing local jurisdictions in Maryland from enacting higher minimum wages. During a news event at City Hall on Thursday, council members called the bill’s backers corporate ...

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The hip bone might be connected to the backbone, as the old song goes, but in Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr.'s case, it might also be connected to the finger that pushes the buttons to vote.

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A Baltimore City Council bill raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2022 is heading back to committee after it was likely to be defeated. Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke, the bill’s lead sponsor, tacked on an amendment and requested the bill ...

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City Councilman Carl Stokes, who as recently as Monday night was the one vote needed to pass a $15 minimum wage bill in Baltimore, said Tuesday that he will vote against the bill next week. “I don’t think we should ...

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A bill that would raise the minimum wage for some workers in Baltimore to $15 an hour by 2022 cleared a major procedural hurdle but faces a stiff test next week. On Monday night the bill passed on to a ...

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A Baltimore City Council committee passed an amendment Tuesday that would extend the phase-in period for a proposed $15 minimum wage to 2023 instead of 2020. Under the amendment, the minimum wage would be $12.50 in 2020. The Labor Committee also voted to ...

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ROCKVILLE — The Montgomery County Council is holding a hearing on a bill to increase the minimum wage in the county to $15 an hour by 2020. The hearing is scheduled for Tuesday evening in Rockville. In 2013, the council ...

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