Opinion: Why Baltimore leaders need to boost the...

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A segment of the Maryland business community, led by the Greater Baltimore Committee, has opened an assault on legislation before the Baltimore City Council that would gradually raise the minimum wage for many workers to $15 by 2022. Their argument, as outlined recently in the Business Journal by GBC’s Donald Fry, basically amounts to, “Wait for the state to address this, or not.” We can’t and should not wait because we need to address an economic divide that’s growing wider. It contradicts…