Daily Caller–
Washington, D.C. residents voted Tuesday to raise the district’s minimum wage to $15 an hour across all businesses by 2026, including formerly tipped-wage employees such as restaurant servers, The New York Times reports.
The vote was called around 9:30 EST with 90 percent of the vote tallied. Initiative 77, as the minimum wage proposal was called, passed by a comfortable margin of 55.1 percent to 44.9 percent, according to TheNYT.
Initiative 77 caused an uproar in the DC restaurant industry. Businesses and employers campaigned hard against the bill saying the wage hike would cost jobs and likely put many restaurants out of business.
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