A bill that would incrementally increase Utah’s minimum wage to a peak of $15 an hour by July 2026 stalled in a House committee on Thursday, as Republicans worried it would kill jobs and hurt the economy prevailed over Democrats who said it would help lift people out of poverty.
Freshman Rep. Clare Collard, D-Magna and the bill’s sponsor, told her colleagues ahead of the vote that the proposal would affect approximately 19,000 Utahns who are currently making the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour - a figure that hasn’t increased with inflation since 2008.
“I have people in my district who are trying to live on $1,256 per month, when the rent on a two bedroom apartment you have to make $19.53 an hour,” she told the House Business and Labor Committee on Thursday. “The math doesn’t add up.”
16 сен 2024
