After falling to the back of the pack like a sedated racehorse, B.C.’s minimum wage is racing to the middle.
Premier Christy Clark recently announced plans to bump the bottom line up 40 cents Sept. 15., moving the lowest wage to $10.85.
For our province’s approximately 120,000 minimum wage workers, 74 per cent of whom are out of their teens, the extra quarter, dime and nickel an hour is good news.
But is this a tide that will lift all boats, or just a drop in the ocean?
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