“Raising the minimum is about bringing a little relief to the working poor, many of whom do jobs we could not live without and who, by the way, will recycle that money right back into the economy,” Patrick said at a signing ceremony at the State House, joined by the Senate president, the House speaker and a number of other state political leaders.
The law will incrementally raise the state hourly minimum wage by one dollar a year. So it will be $9 on Jan. 1, 2015; $10 at the beginning of 2016 and $11 on Jan. 1, 2017.
