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Minimum wage, abortion rights, voting audit ballot drives advance in Michigan

Michigan's minimum wage, now $9.87 an hour, will gradually rise annually to $12.05 in 2031 under current law.

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FILE - This Dec. 12, 2012, file photo shows the state capitol building in Lansing, Mich. Michigan's tax revenues this fiscal year will plummet between $3.1 billion and $3.6 billion below prior estimates due to the coronavirus pandemic, economists said Thursday, May 14, 2020, and are projected to fall billions of dollars short in the next budget year, too. The numbers were released ahead of a Friday meeting at which nonpartisan legislative experts and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's administration will try to get a handle on the budget outlook two months after the crisis hit the state. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

LANSING, Mich. — Organizers of 2022 ballot drives to raise Michigan’s minimum wage and conduct another audit of the presidential election have cleared a procedural step after the state elections board approved summaries to appear atop their petitions.

Members of the bipartisan four-person board are split over a 100-word summary for a proposed constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights and are continuing to debate the language Wednesday afternoon.

Michigan's minimum wage, now $9.87 an hour, will gradually rise annually to $12.05 in 2031 under current law.

It would gradually increase to $15 by 2027 and then go up with inflation under the ballot initiative.

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