California mulls raising minimum wage to $15 an hour

[inanna]

Source: Associated Press

Mar 28, 2016 3:12 PM ET

Gov. Jerry Brown and other California leaders are discussing for the first time what his office is calling a "landmark deal" to raise the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour.

The Democratic governor plans to outline on Monday a tentative agreement he reached with labour unions to boost the state's minimum wage from $10.

The increase would give California by far the largest statewide minimum wage.

Democratic state Sen. Mark Leno of San Francisco says that if an agreement is finalized, it would go before lawmakers by replacing his minimum-wage bill that stalled last year.


Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/california-minimum-wage-15-1.3509696?cmp=rss

[PatrynXX]

1. if Reagan hadn't messed it up it'd be $21 3 yrs ago

not sure where it would be now

[Hoyt]

2. I bet they end up with something like Clinton's proposal, $12 in very rural areas, adjusted upwards

for higher cost areas. An alternative would be $15 in 2025 or so. Something needs to be done for sure.

[forest444]

3. Good call!

You should be an economist, Hoyt.

People who've never lived in California seem to think it's all the same (something like Laguna Beach). But the fact is that cost of living varies enormously from one part of the state - generally the coastal areas - to the other.

[Hoyt]

4. In 1980 I lived for one month in a deteriorating cabin near Sonora California.

It was a cool place. Hardly anyone worked full-time mostly by choice, well except for the big pot growers who were guarding their crops in the mountains. But, if you dredged up a little gold you could have a nice dinner and shave, or go watch the jumping frogs.

I need to go back.

[forest444]

5. Ah, a little before my time I'm sorry to say.

By the time I lived there (Orange County, throughout the 2000s), you were lucky if you could find a decent bootleg unit w/ separate entrance for less than $750 a month.

I heard that a lot from people who had lived there for many years; how much more mellow it was (and how much nicer people generally were) until '80 or so. Qué será.

[threethirteen]

6. 15 bucks in 6 years. 2022 here I come!