Economics
New Jersey Minimum Wage Increasing to $12/Hour, Faces Criticism
- Republicans point to pandemic as need for emergency delay
- Murphy calls $1 more ‘a boost’ for workers and the economy
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New Jersey’s minimum wage will rise to $12 per hour on Friday even as businesses are struggling to stay open and critics are saying the higher cost will make a pandemic recovery even tougher.
Governor Phil Murphy, though, is standing by the $1 increase, mandated by legislation he signed in 2019, as a positive for employees whose hours may have been cut amid other hardships since March, when New Jersey reported its first Covid-19 case.