The Minneapolis City Council passed an ordinance on June 30th raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour over a seven-year-period. This, after a report came out last month outlining the negative effects of Seattle’s minimum wage increase on the city’s low-wage workers. As expected, proponents of the Fight for $15 movement have come out attempting to refute the report. Click here to read more about their concerns and why authors of the study are shrugging off such criticisms.
