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By Jesse Russell

Another state has made minimum wage an election issue. Alabama’s Democratic Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley is running for governor and has pledged that if elected she will push the state legislature to raise the state minimum from $5.15 per hour to $6.15 per hour. If she succeeds, then Alabama could be the 24 the state to require a minimum higher then the federal. Six other states are putting the issue of raising their minimum wages to voters on November 7.