By Tom Starner
HR Dive, March 9, 2016
... The battle over minimum wages pitting states against local municipalities has happened before, CBS reports. But then the federal Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 mandated setting hourly pay at $7.25 as of July 2009, and that remains today's mandated federal minimum wage.
"It's the revitalization of a trend. During that period when minimum wage was really stuck up to 2007, there was a big growth in living-wage ordinances," Holly Sklar, CEO of Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, a national network of companies that advocates for a minimum wage that's indexed to the cost of living, told CBS. "Every time you have a long period, the less likely you'll catch up on the ground that was lost, even when you raise the minimum wage."