A plan to raise California’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022 passed both houses of the state legislature on Thursday, putting the state on track to become the first in the nation to commit to such a large pay hike for the working poor. The measure, incorporating a deal Governor Jerry Brown reached with labor leaders and progressive Democrats in the Legislature, was approved in the state Senate Thursday afternoon after winning approval earlier in the day in the Assembly, and now goes to Brown for his signature.
“If you work full time, your family shouldn’t live in poverty,” Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, a Southern California Democrat, said in support of the bill to raise the state’s minimum wage from its current level of $10 per hour. READ MORE
It’s pure greed, raising the minimum wage doesn’t solve anything, Cali is broke as well as the US, so, where’s the money coming from. We’ve been broke since our own monetary system was taken off the gold standard back in the early 70’s by Nixon…..our money is worth “0”, nada, zilch, nothing….it’s not even worth the cloth-paper it’s printed out of thin air on..
If the people would turn back to Yahuah, Teshuvah/Repent of their lawlessness, perversions, whoring, idolatry, adulteries….return to Yahuah’s Royal Covenant Torah, which can be done and followed today, He would heal the land, but people need to stop doing perversely and being stiff-necked…