What’s an economy with a ‘human purpose’? O’Malley explains in his State of the State

Governor Martin O'Malley's State of the State address focuses raising the minimum wage.

 

Ryan Sharrow 

New Media Editor- Baltimore Business Journal

Gov. Martin O’Malley delivered his final State of the State address Thursday afternoon in Annapolis, focusing on the middle class and raising the minimum wage.

In his speech, O’Malley said raising the state’s minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.10 “is going to create more and better customers for Maryland businesses.”

“And that is why raising the minimum wage in Maryland, is not only good for the hundreds of thousands who will see a boost in their paychecks, it is good for every Marylander, because it is good for our economy,” according to O’Malley’s prepared speech. “It’s time to raise the minimum wage.”

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