The Nation - News from Jan. 8, 1986
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Massachusetts employers will have to pay about 500,000 minimum-wage workers an extra 20 cents an hour starting July 1 and 20 cents more by 1988 under a bill signed by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis. Dukakis said the move to separate the state minimum wage from the $3.35-an-hour federal rate was necessary because the national rate had not increased since 1981, and President Reagan was unlikely to allow any increase in the near future.
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