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hrmjustin

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Mon Jun 2, 2014, 01:39 PM Jun 2014

Bill de Blasio Wants City’s Minimum Wage Beyond $10.10

Ross Barkan

The $10.10 minimum wage is just the beginning for Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Mr. de Blasio told reporters in Manhattan today that he is fully behind Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s plan to raise the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 next year and give localities additional wage hike leeway, hinting that he would like to see the wage eventually soar beyond the initial proposal.

“What I want to focus on is getting the bill passed because that will automatically take us to $10.10 which is the standard President Obama rightly proposed for the country–we need it here in New York City,” Mr. de Blasio said after an unrelated press conference.

Read more at http://observer.com/2014/06/bill-de-blasio-wants-citys-minimum-wage-beyond-10-10/#ixzz33VLivrKQ

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