HV biz groups balk at latest push to hike minimum wage
Photo credit: Angela Gaul | File photo of employees at a West Nyack supermarket. (Feb. 8, 2013)
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Efforts in Albany and Washington to raise the state and federal minimum wages would lift the living standards of nearly 200,000 Hudson Valley workers, proponents say, but business advocates fret that the legislation would curb job creation.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is the co-sponsor of a bill that would raise the federal minimum wage in three 95-cent increments, from $7.25 an hour to $10.10...
