Could Michigan's minimum wage get a raise?

All across the country there are states wrestling with the issue of minimum wage. Michigan is just the latest to start debating an increase to $10.10 per hour, and polls indicate there's string support for such a change.

 

 

"Denno Research conducted the poll of 600 likely voters in the state’s general election.

 

"We had 65 percent were strongly supportive or somewhat supportive,” Dennis Denno told WWJ’s Marie Osborne. "Only 32 percent that were somewhat opposed or strongly opposed."

Denno said he had expected a wide variety of the results."Not surprisingly 85 percent of Democrats were supportive, but even 65 percent of independents were supportive,” Denno said. “I thought we would see significant drop off in older voters, but we didn’t see that either."

 

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