The Iowa Senate has approved a bill that would raise the state’s minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $8.75 per hour in a two-step process. Senate File 269 was approved 27 to 22 and will move to the House, where the bill’s “prospects appear dim,” The Des Moines Register reports.
The bill would increase the state’s minimum wage to $8 per hour in July 2015 and $8.75 per hour in July 2016. Iowa joins other states in its efforts to increase the minimum wage. In February, the Kentucky House of Representatives approved a bill that would raise the state’s minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour by 2017. That bill went to the Senate for approval.
