JFC approves wage hikes for state employees, extra boost for prison guards

The Joint Finance Committee signed off on Tony Evers’ plan to give state and UW System employees raises of 2 percent in each of the next two years while approving higher pay boosts for prison guards than the guv had proposed. But it didn’t approve money to fund his call to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour for all non-UW executive branch employees. It also decided to keep flat funding to ad...