Politicians who had supported an increase have reversed course
BALTIMORE—Cities and counties from Portland, Maine, to Los Angeles have successfully passed local minimum-wage increases, but recent resistance in seemingly friendly territory suggests a momentum shift.
The newly elected Baltimore mayor last month vetoed an increase of the local wage floor to $15 an hour by 2022, despite favoring the policy as a candidate. Earlier this year, the top elected official in Montgomery County, Md., outside Washington blocked a similar measure despite the county previously being at the forefront of local minimum-wage increases.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
By SCOTT CALVERT and ERIC MORATH
April 6, 2017 10:36 a.m. ET