Lentol says minimum wage should go up faster
Wants $9.00 an hour salaries by end of this year
The minimum wage in New York state is scheduled to go up to $9.00 an hour, but not until the end of 2015.
Assemblyman Joseph Lentol (D-Greenpoint-Williamsburg) said workers shouldn’t have to wait that long for the wage increase.
Lentol said he supports legislation to increase the state’s minimum wage to $9.00 an hour a full year ahead of schedule. He also supports tying future increases to inflation.