{"id":7384,"date":"2018-01-24T19:37:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T00:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=7384"},"modified":"2018-01-24T19:39:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T00:39:05","slug":"raising-the-minimum-wage-sb-554","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2018\/01\/24\/raising-the-minimum-wage-sb-554\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising the Minimum Wage (SB 554)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new bill filed by would raise the minimum wage and slowly increase it to $15.00 \/ hour by 2021. <\/p>\n<p>Current wage is $7.25 per federal standards.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gencourt.state.nh.us\/bill_Status\/billText.aspx?sy=2018&#038;v=SI&#038;id=1970&#038;txtFormat=html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SB 554<\/a> was filed by Sen. Donna Soucy, D-Manchester, and co-sponsored along party lines.<\/p>\n<p>The bill has been assigned to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gencourt.state.nh.us\/senate\/committees\/committee_details.aspx?cc=S37\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Commerce Committee<\/a>. You can watch the movement of this bill here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gencourt.state.nh.us\/bill_status\/bill_status.aspx?lsr=2954&#038;sy=2018&#038;sortoption=billnumber&#038;txtsessionyear=2018&#038;txtbillnumber=SB554\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SB 554 Status<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new bill filed by would raise the minimum wage and slowly increase it to $15.00 \/ hour by 2021. Current wage is $7.25 per federal standards. SB 554 was filed by Sen. Donna Soucy, D-Manchester, and co-sponsored along party lines. The bill has been assigned to the Senate Commerce Committee. You can watch the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7386,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions\/7386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}