Lentol says minimum wage should go up faster
Wants $9.00 an hour salaries by end of this year
The minimum wage in New York state is scheduled to go up to $9.00 an hour, but not until the end of 2015.
Assemblyman Joseph Lentol (D-Greenpoint-Williamsburg) said workers shouldn’t have to wait that long for the wage increase.
Lentol said he supports legislation to increase the state’s minimum wage to $9.00 an hour a full year ahead of schedule. He also supports tying future increases to inflation.
“I am confident it will pass,” Lentol told the Brooklyn Eagle in an interview on Jan. 16. “Waiting two more years to earn $9.00 an hour is a long time. It’s a long time to try and support a family on wages that leave a worker below the poverty line.”