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California Plans to Raise Minimum Wage to $15/Hour

Accepted submission by takyon at 2016-03-27 16:12:07
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A deal has been reached that would gradually raise California's minimum wage to $15 per hour [npr.org]. The deal would avoid the prospect of putting the question to voters [latimes.com] in a similar ballot initiative [ballotpedia.org] this November:

Lawmakers and labor unions in California have reached a deal to raise the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour. The tentative agreement would end a lengthy dispute between California Gov. Jerry Brown and unions, Danielle Karson reports for NPR. Under the new deal — which still needs to go before the state legislature — the minimum wage would increase gradually over the next six years.

California's minimum wage had risen to $10 this January under legislation passed in 2013 [wbur.org].


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