Chicago Pushes Living Wage for Big-Box Stores
The city council says it helps the poor. The mayor says it keeps out Wal-Marts and other businesses.Read more.
Mayor Richard Daley is poised to exercise his first veto in 17 years on a new bill that sets a "living wage" of $10 an hour plus $3 an hour in benefits or additional wages by 2010 for stores of more than 90,000 square feet with at least $1 billion a year in corporate sales.
Photo credit: CHICAGO: Living-wage ordinance supporters gathered outside Mayor Daley's office last month. JULIO CORTEZ/AP/FILE
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