Los Angeles Votes To Raise Minimum Wage To $15

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Los Angeles Votes To Raise Minimum Wage To $15

by Alexander C. Kaufman and Jenny Che at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/19/la-minimum-wage_n_7336932.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics

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Los Angeles on Tuesday became the biggest U.S. city to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Following a hot debate, the city council voted 14 to 1 to approve a plan to gradually increase the required wage to $15 an hour by July 2020. The current $9-an-hour minimum wage was already slated to increase to $10 in January.

The pay bump will affect about 567,000 workers in the city.


“This is a game changer,” Tsedeye Gebreselassie, a senior staff attorney at the wage advocacy group National Employment Law Project, told The Huffington Post minutes after the vote. “L.A. is such a huge city, and it’ll have a national impact on the normalization of $15 as the minimum wage.”


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[GummyBearz]

1. LA is difficult to live in on $50/hour

Unless you inherited your parents house... 1 month left until I move out of this mess of a city