March 26: The First State to Make the Minimum Wage Over $10 an Hour

March 26: The First State to Make the Minimum Wage Over $10 an Hour

https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Mar-26-TodayinCTHist-Wage.mp3   On March 26, 2014, Connecticut became the first state in the country to pass legislation setting its minimum wage above $10 an hour. The new law mandated slight increases, rolled out over three years, that would raise the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by the start of 2017, increasing the paychecks of over 70,000 Connecticut workers. Governor Dannel M…