DETROIT — Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed a law raising the minimum wage by $2.25 last week, surprising the Republican State Legislature and raising celebrations among minimum wage workers like carwash employees in the cutthroat Detroit market, according to a March 29 article in the Detroit Free Press.
The current minimum wage of $5.15 per hour will increase to $6.95 this October, followed by a 20-cent raise in July 2007, and finally reaching $7.40 in July 2008, the paper said.
Henry Williams, an employee of Dearborn's Fairlane Car Wash, told the paper the law was "great for the entire country," adding that he thought it should be raised to $10 an hour.
Michigan joins a number of states raising minimum wages from the federal standard of $5.15, including Tennessee, which began considering its first state minimum wage last month.
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