<span style="font-size: medium;">&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.5;">Governor Snyder signed the new minimum wage bill into law on Tuesday, May 27 that will raise Michigan's minimum wage to $9.25 an hour by 2018 and link future increases to the rate of inflation.</span>  </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The compromise bill was designed to sidestep a petition drive seeking to raise the rate to $10.10 an hour for all employees. Activists are expected to turn in signatures Wednesday, but because the new law repeals the old, the potential ballot proposal could be rendered moot.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span style="font-size: medium;">To read more on the new minimum wage bill the Governor signed and who voted for it go online at:</span></p>
<p class="p4"><a href="http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2014/05/how_they_voted_michigan_lawmak.html#incart_2box"><span style="font-size: medium;">http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2014/05/how_they_voted_michigan_lawmak.html#incart_2box</span></a></p>