Local connection: lawmakers get a raise
It’s shameful that Hawaiʻi’s legislature adjourned last week without increasing Hawaiʻi’s $10.10 minimum wage.
And adding insult to injury, while choosing not to help Hawaiʻi’s lowest-paid workers, lawmakers ensured their own pay will go up, along with the governor, his cabinet and state judges.
That’s a slap in the face to low-wage workers and their advocates who heard their lawmakers all but promise a modest $15 minimum, only to have negotiations fall apart late in the four-month session.