LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Actresses Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin will be in Michigan this week advocating for and raising money for a 2018 ballot initiative to increase the state’s minimum wage.
Their events come days after the One Fair Wage ballot drive was announced by a group advocating for restaurant workers.
The measure would gradually raise what’s now an $8.90 hourly minimum wage to $12 in 2022. The lower minimum wage for tipped employees would eventually equal the regular minimum wage, too.
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