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California Minimum Wage

SD council affirms wage increase

DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO — San Diego City Council members approved a series of increases in the city's minimum wage for a required second time on Monday, starting the clock on a likely ... Ref. Source 5

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I hope they approve it because there is no way on earth that anyone can live with $8 or $9 per hour. That's plain slavery!

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Minimum wage campaign gearing up

SAN DIEGO — Supporters and opponents of raising San Diego's minimum wage say they"re gearing up for a possibly rancorous signature-gathering campaign expected to begin Tuesday morning. With the City Council scheduled ... Ref. Source 4

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Minimum wage veto overridden

DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO — The San Diego City Council voted Monday to override Mayor Kevin Faulconer's veto of gradual increases in the local minimum wage to $11.50 an hour by 2017, starting ... Ref. Source 3

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What a minimum wage hike means for some workers

Emeryville, the small town between Oakland and Berkeley, passed the highest minimum wage law in the country, upping wages to 14.44 per hour. The pay increase changed some people lives. As one worker said, “We are not rich, just in the middle. But it’s a lot better than being poor.” Ref. Source 6w

California Minimum Wage

Deal reached to boost Calif. Minimum wage to $15 an hour
Tentative agreement would raise rate statewide gradually, avoiding a November vote

Lawmakers and labor unions have struck a tentative deal to raise the statewide minimum wage to $10.50 an hour next year and then gradually to $15, averting a costly political campaign this ... Ref. Source 2n.

California Minimum Wage

San Diego's minimum wage may be killing jobs

San Diego's decision to raise the minimum wage may have already destroyed thousands of jobs for low-wage workers even as higher pay helps others. Nearly 4,000 food-service jobs may have been cut or not created, according to one analysis. Ref. Source 5o.

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Is San Diego's new minimum wage already hurting its poor? The city's vote to surpass California's wage floor may be killing jobs while inflation mutes benefits for the working poor. Source 1q.