The grumbling among some business interests and economists has resumed as advocates for the poor ask for more.
In Nebraska, the change will apply to a few thousand people, about 0.5 percent of hourly wage earners, who are paid the minimum.
The Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign is calling for a minimum wage of $10 in 2010 as “the least we can do to make up lost ground and bring the minimum wage closer to an adequate living standard.”
