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Minimum wage reaches $13 as state hopes to end worker shortage Ken Dixon FacebookTwitterEmail Sen. Julie Kushner, D-Danbury, co-chairwoman of the legislative Labor Committee.Carol Kaliff / Hearst Connecticut Media With the latest bump this week in the minimum wage, Connecticut is now more than halfway toward the $15 per hour, up from the $10.10 of 2019. As many as 200,000 low-wage workers will see the latest increase to $13 an hour in their next checks, according to the state Department of Labor. And for employers, it’s the cost of doing business, particularly during the stiff competition for workers in the lingering pandemic. “We’ve known for a couple years that employees were going to get another dollar an hour,” said Wayne Pesce, president of the Connecticut Food Association, representing the state’s grocers and supermarkets. “Look, there’s been a lot going on around this conversation nationally, so we’re following Massachusetts and New York and California. M

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