Advocate Aurora Health to raise its minimum wage to $15 per hour over the next three years

Quoted: “This is a great thing for Aurora to do,” said Timothy Smeeding, a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The idea that you are willing to help your least well-off employees — just at a minimal level — says how you value labor,” he said. “That’s a really important message in my mind.”