While LD 1155 was approved by AFA, a number of workers rights-related reforms failed to receive funding. One such measure was LD 1376, a bill to increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. During the legislative process on the bill, Mills publicly expressed skepticism about the notion of raising the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, a reform that the Maine Center for Economic Policy estimated would boost the wages of 127,000 hourly workers.
Budget committee funds bills to increase paltry legislator pay, implement drug policy reforms
