The Line: State vs. Local Control On The Minimum Wage

February 5, 2016 – A bill in the legislature this session (HB 211) would stop counties and cities in New Mexico from creating their own labor laws, particularly raising the minimum wage.

Host Gene Grant leads a discussion about that legislation with former state senators Mark Boitano and Dan Foley, author and political psychologist Martha Burk and Viki Harrison from Common Cause New Mexico.