Room to Grow:

Ohio Can Afford a Higher
Minimum Wage

 

 

Ohio worker productivity, Ohio executive compensation and national corporate profits have all risen steeply in inflation-adjusted terms in the past few years, while the minimum wage has declined in real terms, the median wage has stagnated, and the average wage has grown at a snail’s pace. These are the findings of a new report released today by Policy Matters Ohio and the Center for American Progress (CAP). The report finds that increased productivity and profits provide room for a minimum wage increase in Ohio.

 

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Minimum Wage Vote Raises Privacy Concerns

Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 22, 06

 

Waging War on the Minimum

Cincinnati City Beat, September 20, 06

 

Ohioans Could Lift the Floor for Wages

Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 09, 06

 

Privacy Added as Wage Issue

Cincinnati Enquirer, October 09, 06

 

Campaign on Wage Issue About More Than Just Money

Dayton Daily News, October 08, 06

 

Is State Issue 2 on the Money?

Canton Repository, October 02, 06

 

Sides Weigh Merits of Minimum Wage Hike

Dayton Business Journal, September 29, 06

 

Corporate Success Hasn’t Benefited Lowest-paid

Columbus Dispatch, September 27, 06

9/26/2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

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