As of Friday, 30 states across the country have a minimum wage over the $7.25 per hour federal minimum. While that federal rate now falls more than $1 per hour below the poverty line, 20 states including Utah continue to embrace it even as inflation wreaks its worst havoc on the lives of lower wage earners.
Your elected officers were very busy over the past 45 days. They passed a record-breaking $25 billion budget and hundreds of bills. Here’s a recap of some of the bigger bills that passed, failed and never got off the ground in the 2022 legislative session:
The Utah House passed two of the session s more contentious bills on Wednesday \u2014 one providing a path for transgender student-athletes to play sports with their peers and the other creating a new medical license for anesthesiologist assistants.
Lower wage earners in half the country will have a little extra cause to celebrate the advent of 2022 as widespread increases to minimum wage rates are poised to take effect next year.
Lower wage earners in half the U.S. will have a little extra cause to celebrate in 2022, as 26 states have announced raises to minimum wage rates in the new year. But, the thousands who toil for hourly rates at or near the $7.25 minimum in Utah will not be among them.