SOME 111,000 OHIOANS ARE LIVING AS IF IT'S 1955

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What's the price for higher wage?
By Paula Schleis
Beacon Journal staff writer
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/state/15770551.htm

SOME 111,000 OHIOANS ARE LIVING AS IF IT'S 1955.

When accounting for inflation, today's minimum wage of $5.15 has the same purchasing power as the 75-cent hourly minimum that the federal government set half a century ago.

That's the most recent time that the value of an hour's work fell below a buck -- and some folks are saying enough is enough.

Proponents are hoping Issue 2 will bring low-wage workers into the new millennium -- and keep them there.

The Ohio Fair Minimum Wage initiative on the Nov. 7 ballot would not only raise the minimum wage to $6.85 an hour Jan. 1, it would provide for automatic inflation-based increases.

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Business concerns

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Ohioans to Protect Personal Privacy, a coalition of business associations, are more concerned with the ballot language, group campaign manager John McGough said.

There are record-keeping requirements that will add to a business's expense, and a monitoring process that they fear might unwittingly open personal information to unscrupulous third parties....
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/state/15770551.htm

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