Nebraska bill to limit minimum wage increases dies at last minute as Republican misses vote

A proposed law seeking to limit future increases to Nebraska’s minimum wage failed to clear the final hurdle Wednesday in the Legislature when one Republican lawmaker missed the deciding vote. Nebraska voters in 2022 approved a measure that gradually raises the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour next January and increases it annually with the cost of living each year after. But the latest version of a proposed law from Sen. Jane Raybould of Lincoln — which seemed set to sail t