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Indiana Senate Democrats are renewing their calls for increasing the state’s minimum wage as typically lower-wage businesses like restaurants say they can’t hire enough workers.
Democrats have tried passing measures, including a few during the legislative session this year, to gradually increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. In every attempt, most Republicans have blocked their efforts.
Now Democrats are echoing economists in saying that low-wage jobs – not necessarily unemployment benefits – are causing workers to stay at home.
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Last week I spent about an hour in the law office of state Rep. Greg Steuerwald, a Republican who wanted to talk about something âunbelievable.â It was HEA 1006, a sprawling police reform bill that passed and was signed by Gov. Eric Holcomb without a single dissenting vote.
The next day, I met with U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz at a Carmel coffee shop, asking this freshman Republican what her first impressions of Congress were. âI didnât have very high expectations from Congress as most American people donât,â Spartz said. âThe reason I am saying that was I thought it was going to be like a high school. I was recently talking to a colleague and I said, ââItâs more like middle school.ââ
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Last week I spent about an hour in the law office of State Rep. Greg Steuerwald, a Republican who wanted to talk about something unbelievable. It was HEA 1006, a sprawling police reform bill that passed and was signed by Gov. Eric Holcomb without a single dissenting vote.
The next day, I met with U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz at a Carmel coffee shop, asking this freshman Republican what her first impressions of Congress were. I didn’t have very high expectations from Congress as most American people don’t, Spartz said. The reason I am saying that was I thought it was going to be like a high school. I was recently talking to a colleague and I said, “It’s more like middle school.”