Minimum wage ballot measures
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Minimum wage initiatives set minimum wage levels through the initiative process. In 2006, minimum wage ballot initiatives were on the ballot, and passed, in six states:
Lawsuit filed in 2008 against Colorado amendment
In October 2008, a group of restauranteurs from Pueblo, Gunnison, Yuma, Crested Butte, Salida, Sedalia and La Junta filed a lawsuit against the amendment seeking to have it declared unconstitutional and nullified. The basis for their lawsuit is that the language of the amendment links minimum wage hikes in the state to "the Consumer Price Index used for Colorado." The lawsuit says there "is no CPI 'used for Colorado" but, rather, a CPI for regions, such as a 13-state Western area that includes Colorado, and an index for the Denver-Boulder-Greeley area.
Because of this, the lawsuit says there is "no data whatsoever relating to any rural areas of Colorado and no data from any of the areas in Colorado within which plaintiffs' businesses are situated." They also say, "the rate of inflation and cost-of-living is lower in the areas where plaintiffs do business than in the Denver-Boulder- Greeley metropolitan areas."[1]
