Silver urges hiking minimum wage to $8
Photo credit: AP | Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in Albany. (Jan. 5, 2011)
The State Legislature's top Democrat said Thursday he wants to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to at least $8 and to tie future increases to the inflation rate.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said he hopes to introduce the legislation by Jan. 31. He estimated more than 1.2 million people, or 14 percent of the workforce across New York, would be affected by boosting the state's minimum...
