Bill Proposed to Raise Louisiana Minimum Wage

The Times-Picayune reports that House Bill 245, filed by Representative Leonard Lucas of New Orleans, would increase the state minimum wage to $6.15 per hour and require that it remain $1 above the Federal mandate. The same opponents to New Orleans individualized efforts to accomplish the same thing last year have vowed to kill the measure.

Posted by AJR at March 12, 2003 08:20 AM