City of Baltimore - File #: 14-0143R

• File #: 14-0143R
• Version: 0
• Name: Support for the Governor’s Agenda - Raising the State Minimum Wage
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 1/27/2014
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 1/27/2014
• Title: Support for the Governor's Agenda - Raising the State Minimum Wage FOR the purpose of calling upon the State legislature to enact and the Governor to sign legislation to raise the State minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by 2016, index the minimum wage to inflation to keep pace with the rising cost of living, and increase the minimum wage for tipped workers from 50 percent to 70 percent of the regular minimum wage.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Bill Henry, Helen L. Holton, Brandon M. Scott, Warren Branch, Nick Mosby, Sharon Green Middleton, Carl Stokes, President Young, Rochelle Spector, Edward Reisinger, Robert Curran, William "Pete" Welch
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/27/2014	0	City Council	Introduced
1/27/2014	0	City Council	Advanced to 2nd Reader on same day
1/27/2014	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Clarke



A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Support for the Governor's Agenda - Raising the State Minimum Wage

FOR the purpose of calling upon the State legislature to enact and the Governor to sign legislation to raise the State minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by 2016, index the minimum wage to inflation to keep pace with the rising cost of living, and increase the minimum wage for tipped workers from 50 percent to 70 percent of the regular minimum wage.
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WHEREAS, the minimum wage in Maryland is only $7.25 per hour, or $15,000 a year for a full-time, year round worker. The $7.25 level has been in effect since 2009.

WHEREAS, the State minimum wage would be over $10 per hour had it kept pace with the rising cost of living over the last forty years.

WHEREAS, the current State minimum wage leaves full-time earners and their families below the federal poverty line.

WHEREAS, 86% of low-wage workers are adults (over 20 years old), 77% work more than 20 hours a week, and nearly half have at least some college education.

WHEREAS, approximately 350,000 Maryland children have at least one parent who would benefit from an increase in the minimum wage.

WHEREAS, the minimum wage is becoming more important than ever to Maryland's economy as more workers rely on low-wage jobs to make ends meet and as job growth since the recession has been dispr...