Greater Boston with Jim Braude
WGBH TV, Sept 20, 2017
It worked before and now, minimum wage activists are hoping it will work again. In 2014, Massachusetts lawmakers approved a measure to gradually raise the minimum wage. But they did it under pressure. If the lawmakers didn’t act, there was a ballot question ready to go, which would have let the people decide.
In the end, the minimum wage went from 8 to 11 dollars in the state. But then, the fight for 15 swept the country with protesters in dozens of cities, including here in Boston, calling for a $15 minimum wage. And once again, with a ballot question on the horizon for 2018, state lawmakers are taking a closer look.
Bob Luz, president of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association and Michel Kanter, co-owner of Cambridge Naturals, weigh in on the debate over the minimum wage with Jim.