SEATTLE — After months of knocking on doors and campaigning outside grocery stores, organizers behind an initiative to raise Renton's minimum wage to about $19 an hour say they are close to qualifying for the November ballot.
Raise the Wage Renton organizers submitted a petition with more than 10,000 signatures to the city clerk's office last week. The proposal would raise the city's minimum wage closer to those in Seattle, SeaTac and Tukwila.
Supporters say the state's current minimum wage, $15.74 an hour, isn't enough to keep up with rising housing costs and high inflation in the region.
