Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny says, ‘Raise minimum wage now!’
Workers at the low end of the economic ladder deserve a raise in the minimum wage, according to a Brooklyn lawmaker who voted in favor of increasing the salary from $7.25 an hour to $9.00.
Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny (D-Coney Island-Dyker Heights-Bay Ridge) said the state assembly passed a bill a year ago to raise the minimum wage to $8.50 an hour. But following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech last week, the assembly amended its bill to match the president’s proposal.
Like the president’s proposal, the assembly’s amended minimum wage plan calls for wages to increase along with the rate of inflation.