Voters Give Workers A Raise: Money Raised Around the Minimum Wage Ballot Measures in Six States in 2006


 

Publication Date: October 2007

Publisher: National Institute on Money in State Politics (U.S.)

Author(s): Linda Casey

Research Area: Politics

Type: Report

Coverage: Ohio Ohio Ohio Missouri Colorado Arizona

Abstract:

Ballot measures calling for an increase in the state minimum wage made their way onto ballots in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Nevada and Ohio in 2006. Advocates and critics of the proposed increases raised a combined $14.4 million to argue their positions, but the positions of voters in all six states were clear - raise the minimum wage.