CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
April 29, 2025 — Missouri business owners are welcoming today’s Supreme Court’s decision upholding Proposition A, preserving paid sick leave, which takes effect Thursday, May 1, and the minimum wage increases approved by Missouri voters last November. A...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
March 11, 2025 -- As the Missouri Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments tomorrow in a case challenging last year’s ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage and enable workers to earn paid sick leave, a group...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
Dec. 12, 2024—Twenty-one states will raise their minimum wage on New Year’s Day as the calendar turns to 2025. Two other states and the District of Columbia have increases scheduled later in the year. Business owners across the...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
Nov. 5, 2024 — Missouri business owners are applauding the passage of Proposition A, saying raising the minimum wage and enabling workers to earn paid sick days will boost consumer spending and strengthen Missouri’s workforce and businesses. Proposition...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
Nov. 5, 2024 — Alaska business owners are praising the approval of Ballot Measure 1, saying raising the minimum wage and enabling workers to earn paid sick days will boost consumer spending and strengthen Alaska’s workforce, businesses and...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
Oct. 21, 2024 — As early voting begins tomorrow in Missouri, more than 500 businesses in the Missouri Business for a Healthy Economy coalition urge passage of Proposition A. They say that raising the minimum wage to $15...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
ANCHORAGE, Sept. 5, 2024 — Today, Alaska Business for Better Jobs, a new and growing coalition with more than 120 Alaska businesses and business organizations to date, announced support for Ballot Measure 1. Alaska Business for Better Jobs...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
Aug. 13, 2024 —Missouri business owners welcomed today’s Secretary of State announcement that Proposition A to raise the minimum wage and enable workers to earn paid sick time has qualified for the November ballot. The business owners are part...
Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
July 18, 2024—July 24 will mark fifteen years since the last federal minimum wage increase in 2009. This is the longest period by far without a raise since the minimum wage was enacted in 1938. The...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
May 1, 2024 — Missouri business owners are speaking today about the importance of raising the state minimum wage and providing paid sick leave as Missourians for Healthy Families and Fair Wages submits signatures to qualify the ballot initiative...
Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, 601-832-6079
Dec. 14, 2023—Twenty-two states will raise their minimum wage to ring in the new year. Another three states and the District of Columbia have increases scheduled later in 2024. Business owners across the country are welcoming the increases, saying they...
Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
Sept. 26, 2023—Business owners from across Massachusetts support increasing the state minimum wage. Business leaders are testifying at the Massachusetts State House before the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development in support of legislation that would gradually...
Contact: Lena Rueck
lena@emccommunications.com, (801) 822-7990
Sept. 21, 2023—Florida’s minimum wage will increase from $11 to $12 an hour on Sept. 30 and business leaders across Florida are welcoming the raise, saying it will boost consumer spending, bolster local businesses and strengthen the economy...
Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com or (601) 832-6079
July 25, 2023—Business owners around the country are speaking up in support of new legislation introduced in Congress today, the Raise the Wage Act of 2023, to gradually increase the federal minimum wage to $17 by 2028...
Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
June 22, 2023 — Business owners say that minimum wage increases taking effect July 1 in Nevada, Oregon, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere will boost consumer spending and benefit their businesses and local economies.
July 1 increases include: