In order to afford a modest, two-bedroom apartment at the fair market rent rate in Vermont, renters need to earn $21.90 an hour, or $45,545 a year as a family. This is Vermont’s 2017 housing wage, revealed in the annual […]
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Letter, Opinion
Increase in minimum wage needed
Dear editor, Raising the minimum wage is not a new idea. But we need to get serious now. There is a bill before the legislature that would gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. There are many benefits […]
Local News
Raising the minimum wage?
Workers and businesses split By Erin Mansfield, VTDigger Workers say raising the minimum wage will help them spend money at local businesses, but local businesses say paying workers more will cause them to raise prices. Those were the competing messages […]