Opinion: Minimum wage hikes help the working poor

Last June, I stood with local restaurateurs, retailers, doctors, poverty-reduction advocates and women’s social service organizations to announce our government’s three-year plan to increase the minimum wage to $15-per-hour by 2018 and make life better for those Albertans earning the bare minimum.
This Sunday, our province will take another step forward by helping roughly 94,000 Albertans better make ends meet when the minimum wage increases to $13.60 an hour. Most of these Albertans