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Parting Shot — 4.1.15

Cook Alex Romero looks out from the kitchen at the Skillet Diner in Seattle. Seattle’s new minimum wage law went into effect today. It will eventually raise the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour. Starting today, large businesses and national chains must raise their minimum pay to at least $11 an hour. Smaller businesses must pay at least $10 an hour. Seattle's current minimum wage is $9.47, the same as the Washington state minimum wage. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Question: If $15 per hour is too high for a minimum wage in Washington, is there anyone out there but an Idaho Legislature and some business owners who think $7.25 is too law for Idaho?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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