Check out our ad below. Interestingly enough, the front page of the Albuquerque Journal included a story about how University of New Mexico is being forced to come up with as much as $780,000 in additional funding to pay for the increase.
Our Ad on the harm of a statewide hike in the minimum wage
Local arguments for and against the minimum wage hike have been largely data-free. No one appears to have tracked the impact of Santa Fe’s minimum wage — which apparently has not had much overall impact on a city of high government employment.
I hope local business groups will hire a credible polling firm to conduct a tracking survey to quantify who minimum-wage employees are, how many of them are breadwinners, and how the new minimum wage affects their employment.