Washington Post quotes Fried in article on Portland rejecting minimum wage increase
Amy Fried, a political science professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Washington Post article, “Portland, Maine rejects a $15 minimum wage. Here’s what that means.” On Election Day, Portland residents voted 58 percent to 42 percent against a ballot measure that would have raised the local minimum wage to $15 by July 2019 for most businesses, according to the article. “I think it was too much, it was too far a step for people,” Fried said. “A lot of people felt like it made more sense to do something statewide, then you don’t have a whole situation where Portland is separate from the communities around it.”