With the prospect of increasing the minimum wage in Illinois while neighboring states keeping theirs lower, some worry that will put the Land of Lincoln at a disadvantage from other states. Even President Barack Obama said increasing the Federal Minimum Wage would be better at making things more fair from state-to-state. Congressman Rodney Davis says any increase in the federal minimum wage must be paired with comprehensive tax reform

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Davis says the Congressional Budget Office indicates hundreds of thousands of people could lose their jobs across the country if there was an increase in the minimum wage to ten-ten and hour. Voters in four different states voted in favor of a binding referendum to increase their minimum wage. Illinois voters voted in favor of a nonbinding referendum to increase the states' minimum wage.