By Peter Marcus
Durango Herald, Feb 18, 2016
DENVER – A ballot proposal to raise the minimum wage in Colorado was filed on Thursday. The effort comes just a day after Republicans in the state Legislature blocked an effort to allow local governments to raise wages in their counties. ...
Colorado Families for a Fair Wage has proposed gradually increasing the state minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020. ... Full-time workers make $8.31 an hour under the state’s minimum wage, about $17,000 per year. Proponents say the wage has not kept up with cost-of-living increases. ...
“Raising the minimum wage makes good business sense,” said [business owner] Richard Correa, a proponent of the effort. “Workers will spend their needed minimum wage increases at the grocery, hardware store, auto repair and other businesses.”
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