WJON – Minnesota’s minimum wage goes up by a buck to $9 an hour on Saturday. It was a year ago on August 1st that the state’s minimum wage was raised to $8 an hour.
King Banaian is the Dean of the School of Public Affairs at St. Cloud State University. He says, based on figures from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, employment growth in the St. Cloud metro area has been slow in the past year, which might be due in part to the higher minimum wage.
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