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The share of Idaho workers earning minimum wage has grown from 5 percent in 2011 to 7.7 percent in 2012. The growth has put Idaho in the top spot for the largest share of minimum wage workers in the country. How did that happen? And what’s being done to reverse the trend?

Idaho Senate Approves Pay Raise For Top Elected Officials

Emilie Ritter Saunders
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Boise State Public Radio

A plan to give the governor, secretary of state, treasurer, controller and superintendent of schools 2.5 percent increases next year and each year thereafter has passed the Senate.

The Spokesman-Review reports the Senate voted 30-5 Thursday. The bill now goes to the House.

The bill calls for the attorney general's pay to rise next year to that of district judges, a 16 percent increase.

The lieutenant governor would receive a 19.6 percent increase next year, followed by 2.5 percent annual increases.

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