{"id":99596,"date":"2025-02-27T05:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T12:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/02\/27\/legislators-consider-increasing-minimum-wage\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-02-27T05:15:50","modified_gmt":"2028-01-13T05:15:50","slug":"legislators-consider-increasing-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/02\/27\/legislators-consider-increasing-minimum-wage\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Legislators Consider Increasing Minimum Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montana\u2019s minimum wage could be increased to $12.06 an hour if a bill introduced to the House Monday, Feb. 24, passes.<br \/>\n\t  Rep. Kelly Kortum, DBozeman,  introduced House Bill 484 to the House Business  and Labor Committee Monday. Supporters said the state\u2019s current $10.55 rate doesn\u2019t match the cost of living,  but opponents disagreed and said the increase could increase inflation.<br \/>\n\t  Patrick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99742,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99596\/revisions\/99742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99596"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=99596"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=99596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}