State begins verifying petition signatures for Arkansas’ minimum wage ballot issue
More than 69,000 additional signatures supporting the increase were delivered to the capitol building Monday. That’s about 7,000 signatures more than needed to make it to the November ballot.
The proposal would raise Arkansas’ minimum hourly pay from $6.25 an hour to $7.50 on January first next year. Then it goes to $8.00 flat in 2016 and up to $8.50 in 2017.