By Adam Uzialko
business.com, Updated Sep 20, 2022

Employees who earn enough to get by improve performance and overall business.

Paying a “living wage” requires more than just meeting state and federal minimum wage requirements. Living in certain communities is more expensive and requires people to earn more to sustain basic life necessities. As an employer, paying a living wage can feel like a burden to the bottom line, but it can be a powerful investment in your people that positively affects revenues.

A living wage is an hourly employee pay rate that each working adult in...

By William Padmore, Host/Reporter and Jackie Ourada, Morning Edition Host & Reporter Nebraska Public Media
Nebraska Public Media (PBS, NPR), Sep 6, 2022

Questions over raising Nebraska's minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2026 and requiring photo identification to vote will be put to voters this November. ...

Lincoln business owner Dave Titterington said he supports businesses paying their employees more. He said he's seen it help his Wildlife Bird Habitat stores retain employees.

"It's a real benefit for our store to pay those employees a decent wage because they stay with us," Titterington said. "If...

By Jordan Himes
8ABC, KLKN-TV, Lincoln, Sep 6, 2022

Watch video for interview with Dave Titterington, Owner, Wild Bird Habitat Stores

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By Martha Stoddard, Erin Bamer
Omaha World Herald, Sep 6, 2022 

Nebraskans will decide this November about requiring people to present identification to vote and about raising the state’s minimum wage. Secretary of State Bob Evnen announced Tuesday that both petitions had garnered enough signatures to qualify for the general election ballot. ...

Nebraska Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, a group of business owners, called Tuesday’s announcement “good news.” The group said that gradually raising the minimum wage would bolster local businesses and the economy.

Voters passed a similar ballot initiative in 2014 to boost the Nebraska...

Nebraska Rural Radio Association, KTIC
Sep 6, 2022

Raise the Wage Nebraska (RTWN) received notice today from the Nebraska Secretary of State that the citizen-led initiative petition to raise the minimum wage has qualified for the November ballot. ...

Rick Poore, owner of Shirts 101 in Lincoln, said, “Raising the minimum wage will help Nebraska’s workers make ends meet and boost our economy. ...

10/11 NOW, Sep. 6, 2022

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Secretary of State Bob Evnen announced Tuesday that county elections officials have completed their task of verifying signatures submitted as part of the Voter ID Constitutional Amendment and Nebraska Minimum Wage Statute Initiative, and both will appear on the ballot for the November general election.

The Nebraska Minimum Wage Statute Initiative would gradually raise the minimum wage over four years, adding $1.50 annually until it hits the $15 goal by 2026. ...

Morrow Collision Center, located in Lincoln, said bumping up worker pay is one tool...

By Joe Harris
Fox42, KPTM, Sep 6, 2022

OMAHA—It's a proposal that would raise the state minimum wage in four steps. First, it would take it from $9.00 an hour to $10.50 on Jan. 1. By 2026, it would be $15.00 per hour. This fall, Nebraskans will have the chance to decide the measure's fate at the polls.

The group Nebraska Business for a Fair Minimum Wage supports the idea of raising it. Member Mike Draper, who also owns Raygun stores, said the federal minimum wage hasn't changed in more than a decade.

"It's at $7.25...

By Jacob Comer and Brian Mastre
6 News WOWT (NBC), Omaha, Sep. 6, 2022 

Nebraska residents will be voting on two initiatives this November. According to Secretary of State Bob Evnen, election officials have verified the signatures for two different ballot initiatives: the Voter ID Constitutional Amendment and Nebraska Minimum Wage Statute. ...

The Minimum Wage Statute would raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2026. ...

Some businesses say the wage increase would directly benefit thousands of Nebraska residents.

Raygun Clothing employs 110 people in all sorts of different jobs across a number of midwest communities. From here in...

By Tim Murphy
City & State New York, Sep 6, 2022

... a coalition of state lawmakers and advocates will push in next year's legislative session to raise the minimum wage incrementally over the next few years ...

One business owner already on board is Jonathon Welch, owner of Talking Leaves Books in Buffalo, who starts his staffers at just above the upstate minimum wage of $13.20 but also has workers currently making as much as $18.

“People need to make a living wage, which the current minimum wage is not,” he said. “But also, if people make...

By Dani Romero
Yahoo Finance, August 6, 2022

It's been 13 years since Congress raised the federal minimum wage, the longest period without an increase since 1938. ...

The Biden administration has advocated for a $15 federal minimum wage, which would lift the pay for 32 million Americans. Earlier this year, President Biden signed an executive order requiring a raise for federal contractors to $15. ...

Some small businesses have backed a minimum wage hike too ...

"Paying a living wage is the right sort of business decision to make," said John Schall, a taqueria owner in Boston, Pennsylvania, and...