By Kieran Nicholson
Denver Post, Sept 29, 2016
Spirited arguments for and against raising Colorado’s minimum wage, as proposed in Amendment 70, were aired Thursday night at a Denver Post partnered forum.
The first “Tap the Vote” forum pitted Debra Brown, a manager for Colorado Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, who backs passage, against Tyler Sandberg, with the opposition group Keep Colorado Working. ...
Brown, on the other hand, said the increase, if passed by voters, would stimulate the state economy.
“We know it is good for business. We know it is good for the economy,” Brown said, citing, in part, a 2006 statewide wage increase.
Higher wages result in happier, better workers, Brown said, with less job turnover. Workers who earn higher wages spend the raise they receive in their local economy, she argued. ...
Passage could stimulate the state economy by $400 million, Brown said, raising income for one out of five Colorado families. “You can’t raise a child on $300 a week,” she said.
Denver Post business writer Aldo Svaldi moderated the forum. ...