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Montgomery County commissioners voted last week to increase the minimum starting wage for county employees from $16 to $20.52 an hour. The county now has the highest minimum wage of any local government in Pennsylvania.
“After years of record inflation, the cost of everything from rent to gas to a gallon of milk have gone up,” Chair of the Board of Commissioners Neil Makhija said at a commissioners meeting Wednesday. “Wages haven’t kept pace, and there are people working very hard, including for the county, doing things that they love to make a difference in public service, who are struggling to make ends meet. And in Montco, we want to be able to help and make a difference in that.”…