Nebraska, Nevada Minimum Wage Measures Adopted; Voters have OK’d 23 Straight Since 1998

The minimum wage in Nebraska will increase from $9 to $15 an hour by 2026 and in Nevada from $10.50 to $12 an hour by 2024, after voters in both states approved Nov. 8 ballot measures.
Nebraskans approved Initiative 433 by a 58.5 to 41.5 percent margin, increasing their state’s minimum wage by ballot measure for the second time since 2014 when they endorsed raising it from $7.25 to $9 an hour by 2016.
Nevada voters adopted Question 2 on their midterm ballots by a 55.2 to 44.8 percent margin, also raising the state’s base hourly rate for the second time since 2006 by popular vote while doing away with the nation’s only two-tiered minimum wage system….}