Baltimore City $15 Minimum Wage Law Passes

The Baltimore City Council passed a bill that would raise the city’s minimum wage in installments, with it reaching $15 an hour for most workers by 2023.

The measure passed March 20 on an 11-3 vote, with one council member absent.

“Nearly half of all children in Baltimore hover around the poverty line,” Charly Carter, executive director of Maryland Working Families, told Bloomberg BNA March 20. “When you put extra money into the hands of the people at the very low end of the socioeconomic spectrum, that money immediately goes back into the economy.” Her group is a member of ...