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D.C. moves towards 11.50 minimum wage
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Hourly workers in the District of Columbia are
poised to have one of the nation's highest
minimum wages. City lawmakers unanimously passed
on Tuesday a gradual increase in the District's
minimum wage from 8.25 to 11.50 an hour. The
hike would be phased in over three years,
starting at 9.50 in July 2014. It would then
increase in tandem with inflation starting in
2017. The federal minimum hourly wage is 7.25
and has not increased since 2009, though states
and localities can set a higher rate. While
President Obama campaigned on increasing the
federal minimum wage, Democratic proposals to
raise it to just over 10 have gained little
traction on Capitol Hill. Nearly 20 states
currently have a minimum wage above the federal
level (PA7.25).
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In Other News

• Researchers in Hawaii have found a mammoth World
  War II-era Japanese submarine scuttled by the
  U.S. Navy in 1946 to keep its advanced technology
  out of the hands of the Soviet Union. The Hawaii
  Undersea Research Laboratory at the University of
  Hawaii discovered the I-400 in 2,300 feet of
  water off the southwest coast of Oahu, according
  the school. "Finding it where we did was totally
  unexpected. All our research pointed to it being
  further out to sea. At nearly 400 feet long, the
  I-400 and its two sister ships were the largest
  submarines ever built before the nuclear age.
• Some audio recordings of 911 calls from the Sandy
  Hook Elementary School shooting will be released
  Wednesday afternoon. The calls, made to Newtown,
  Connecticut, police, are scheduled to be made
  available to the media on CDs at 2 p.m. ET.