Minimum Wage

Is the $15 Minimum Wage Coming to Cleveland?

The city is considering a bill backed by a union PAC.

Joshua Swain | 5.15.2016 1:00 PM

On Monday, the Cleveland City Council will consider legislation to boost the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour. (The wage floor in Ohio is currently $8.10.) The bill is the result of a petition by Raise Up Cleveland, a union-affiliated PAC.

California just voted to increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022—but why not $25? Or how about $35?

Reason TV recently posed that question to L.A. residents:

Joshua Swain was a producer for "Stossel on Reason" and Reason TV. A Virginia native, he attended George Mason University.

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