Group collects signatures needed to put an Alaska $15 minimum wage on ballot this year

A group backed by the dark-money Sixteen Thirty Fund turned in about 41,000 signatures to the Alaska Division of Elections, which means the group likely has the required amount to advance a ballot question to voters: Shall Alaska’s minimum wage be set at $15 an hour? Alaska’s Minimum Labor Standards Initiative, as it’s called, would … Continue reading Group collects signatures needed to put an Alaska $15 minimum wage on ballot this year