The D.C. Board of Elections will hold a public hearing Wednesday.

According to a poll commissioned by D.C. Working Families, a coalition pushing a minimum wage ballot initiative, 74 percent of the 606 voters polled would support a hike to $12.50.

D.C. Working Families, a local offshoot of the national group Working Families, is pushing for a ballot initiative that would require a minimum wage of $12.50 an hour by 2017, as well as a minimum wage of $8.70 for tipped workers.