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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MP43" data-source="post: 4294881" data-attributes="member: 1631"><p>I didn't think it would pass in 2018 when they put it on the ballot in Arkansas either. (Raised MW to $11.00/hr over three years) But it did, and overwhelmingly: 68% to 32%, if memory serves. (Never underestimate the extent of economic illiteracy in this country.) Inflation has since blunted many of the ill effects, but when it was first enacted, there were numerous stories of both business hardships and of minors, felons, developmentally disabled and others having difficulty finding or retaining jobs.</p></blockquote><p></p>