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Last updated on Monday, November 10, 2014
(UNDATED) - Indiana isn’t likely to follow the lead of four states which voted last week to raise the minimum wage.
Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska and South Dakota are all Republican strongholds, but they all passed binding referenda last week to increase the minimum wage. Indiana doesn't legislate by referendum.
Democrats say they plan to propose an increase in the upcoming General Assembly, but Senate Pensions and Labor Chairman Phil Boots (R-Crawfordsville) says he doesn't plan to give those bills a hearing. He says the free market should and does determine wages, with scarcer skills attracting higher wages in the same way a scarcity of in-demand goods drives up prices.
The Arkansas, Nebraska and South Dakota votes leave 24 states which adhere to the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour, including Indiana.
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