Todd Gabe, an economics professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in a Bangor Daily News article about a proposal to increase the local minimum wage. If approved, the local minimum wage would increase from $7.50 to $8.25 per hour in 2016, to $9 per hour in 2017 and to $9.75 in 2018. According read more Gabe quoted in BDN article, Bangor minimum wage ordinance