{"id":159594,"date":"2026-03-10T20:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159594\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T20:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:23:31","slug":"city-council-considers-increasing-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159594\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council considers increasing minimum wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minimum wage workers in New York City could see automatic annual raises under a new bill being considered by the City Council.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation would link the city\u2019s minimum wage to inflation, ensuring pay keeps pace with the cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>For businesses with 500 or more employees, the current $17-an-hour minimum wage would rise to $30 by 2030 and then increase each year with inflation. Smaller businesses would follow a similar schedule, starting at $29 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>City Councilmember Sandy Nurse, who is introducing the bill and collaborating with labor unions and advocacy groups on the \u201c$30 for Our City Campaign,\u201d joined \u201cMornings On 1\u201d Tuesday to discuss the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minimum wage workers in New York City could see automatic annual raises under a new bill being considered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[203,2274,2275,9,24,55,54,12,56,380,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-159594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-app-education","9":"tag-app-mornings-on-1","10":"tag-mornings-on-1","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","18":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}