{"id":2383675,"date":"2024-12-26T08:52:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T13:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-minimum-wage-to-increase-jan-1-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T08:52:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T13:52:49","slug":"ohio-minimum-wage-to-increase-jan-1-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-minimum-wage-to-increase-jan-1-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio minimum wage to increase Jan. 1 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fohio-minimum-wage-to-increase-jan-1-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2383675&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The provided text\u200d seems to be a\u2064 snippet of \u200cHTML \u200ccode that includes \u2064a &#8220;Read more&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-lawsuits-likely-to-follow-as-francis-scott-key-bridge-collapse-investigation-continues\/\" title=\"Check out: Expect lawsuits to follow as investigation into Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse progresses\">button designed<\/a> to expand on additional\u200c content\u200d when clicked. 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The current Ohio minimum wage for tipped employees is $5.25 per hour and $10.45 for nontipped workers. The minimum wage for youth workers is $7.25 per hour.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ohio voters are to thank for next month&rsquo;s increase in the minimum wage,&rdquo; Policy Matters Ohio Economist Heather Smith said. &ldquo;Voters enshrined adjustments for inflation to the minimum wage law in 2006, when they voted overwhelmingly to raise the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-of-how-kyrsten-sinema-voted-against-15-minimum-wage-goes-viral-leftists-erupt-in-anger\/\" title=\"Video Of How Kyrsten Sinema Voted Against  Minimum Wage Goes Viral, Leftists Erupt In Anger\">state minimum wage<\/a>. Over 28% of Ohio families with incomes below the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oakland-to-enroll-600-families-of-color-in-guranteed-income-pilot-program\/\" title=\"Oakland to Enroll 600 Families of Color in \u2018Guranteed Income\u2019 Pilot Program\">federal poverty level<\/a> will get some relief from rising prices as a result.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Economic Policy Institute estimates about 112,700 Ohioans paid less than $10.70 will see a direct wage increase Jan. 1, and another 206,000 making just above the minimum will also see an increase when employers adjust pay scales.<\/p>\n<p>A proposed constitutional amendment that would raise the state&rsquo;s minimum wage to $15 per hour plus tips by 2026 failed to reach the required number of signatures to reach the ballot earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>As&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/ohio\/main\/preview\/site\/ohio\/article_73e6d7fa-de05-11ed-a8f1-6f81d63ec157.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>previously reported<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;by The Center Square, the Ohio Chamber of Commerce opposed the proposed amendment, saying it would hurt small businesses that continue to struggle.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The proposed minimum wage amendment to the Ohio Constitution is not only ill-advised and economically detrimental, it would be next to impossible to correct once the unintended consequences transpire,&rdquo; Chamber CEO Steve Stivers said, including the potential for layoffs and reduced jours for workers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1921128\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1921128\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio&#8217;s minimum wage will rise to $10.70 on Jan. 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2383676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ohio-state-capital-building-in-columbus-1024x580.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5476,47413,32421,4333],"class_list":["post-2383675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-increase","tag-january-1","tag-minimum-wage","tag-ohio"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ohio-state-capital-building-in-columbus-1024x580.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383679,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383675\/revisions\/2383679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2383676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}