Measure to hike California's minimum wage to $15 qualifies for ballot

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

A proposal to raise California's minimum wage to $15 an hour by the year 2021 has qualified to be listed on the upcoming November ballot in the state, officials said on Tuesday.

The development comes as a wave of minimum wage increases at the state level sweeps the United States as the federal minimum wage has gone more than six years without an increase from $7.25 an hour.

The California Secretary of State's office said supporters of the measure, pushed by Labor group coalition Lift Up California, had gathered more than the 400,000 signatures needed to have the Fair Wage Act of 2016 placed on the ballot.

"California has led the country on environmental, health and civil rights protections and it’s only appropriate that we would become the first state to enact a minimum wage that allows millions of families to live in dignity," Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl said in a statement.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-minimumwage-idUSKCN0WP06D

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World | Tue Mar 22, 2016 10:13pm EDT

[RepubliCON-Watch]

1. By 2021...

Min. wage should be around $20-22/hr

[7962]

5. And coming by 2022......

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/would-you-eat-restaurant-robot-7576240
http://time.com/3623893/mcdonalds-tablets-ordering/

[AtomicKitten]

2. Proud to say voters passed Prop J in San Francisco in 2014 by 77%

... that incrementally raises the minimum wage to $15 an hour fully implemented by 2018.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://sfgov.org/olse/minimum-wage-ordinance-mwo&ved=0ahUKEwij4cHn0NbLAhVE4GMKHd3DAE4QFggbMAA&usg=AFQjCNG8BLSx2_T5Pvg5DrsBciQO9FFhzw&sig2=7b73qSDd7CYbF3bCeUk-Qg

[glowing]

3. Quite honestly, California with its own GDP

The size it is, could become their own country in the future .

[paleotn]

7. Could be a member of the G7

replacing Canada on GDP and population.

[Cartoonist]

4. I wonder how much money will be spent

trying to defeat this.

[Jitter65]

6. A lot. This ballot measure favors Sanders a bunch.

I think that is what the Sanders campaign was counting on and the reason they know they can stick in the race. Ballot issues make a huge difference.

[Starry Messenger]

8. This is for Nov. not the June primary. nt.

[Starry Messenger]

9. K&R

[Sunlei]

10. by 2021 the wage will need to be $24 an hour to help pay for the $25 gallon of milk & the $4 apple.

[moose65]

11. Why do stories like this....

always have the word "hike" in the headline? Also, any time a Democratic politician wants to raise this tax or that, it's always characterized as a "tax hike." Am I being overly sensitive here? The word "hike" does have a negative connotation, doesn't it?