Ballot proposal seeks to raise Nevada minimum wage to $13

Voters might be able to weigh in on gradually raising Nevada’s minimum wage from its current rate of $8.25 an hour to $13 over the next decade. A group called the Committee to Raise the Minimum Wage in Nevada filed a petition Monday to get a rate hike on the ballot in 2016. Officers for the group include the Rev. Neal Anderson of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Northern Nevada, who said the measure was about lifting families from poverty, bringing wages in line with increasing cos