whatsaphoto t1_j86e7t6 wrote
It's insane to me that it just can't be that focus has shifted to another thing but the original thing still very much has validity and importance in the state. It's not like it looses importance just because other things are happening at the same time.
cowperthwaite OP t1_j86hga6 wrote
Raptakis has been trying to get automatic increases based on inflation since 2007, but told me he almost never gets support, colleagues told him, we'll consider it when we get to $15/hour.
>For Sen. Leonidas Raptakis, the fight over the minimum wage has been a pet issue since 2007. One of the two related bills he filed would tie minimum wage increases every year to the Providence-area rate of inflation as published in the federal Consumer Price Index.
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