Posted on 06/01/2015 8:02:10 AM PDT by bob_denard
On May 1, S.F. increased rate to $12.25 an hour
Voters support move, but some business owners, workers are uneasy
Sacramento will study raising pay wage above the $9 state rate
SAN FRANCISCO In this diverse and densely packed city, known for high living costs and soaring rents, 77 percent of voters last year approved a series of pay hikes that will boost San Francisco’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2018.
Yet there are tensions these days on Valencia Street in San Francisco’s multicultural Mission District over the minimum wage hike and what it means for businesses and the ability of residents to keep up with rising costs.
As other cities, including Sacramento, ponder increases to the local minimum wage, the stories told along Valencia illustrate the complexities of the issue.
Amid aromatic kitchens turning out Salvadoran pupusas, Pakistani goat curry and only-in-San Francisco plates of tofu ranchero, low-wage workers are feeling anxious. That’s despite getting a raise to $12.25 an hour on May 1, the first of four annual wage jumps to take place under the city’s voter-approved Proposition J.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
There is only one reason why there are these huge pushes for minimum wage. It is not for the poor schlubs. It is because union wages are a multiple of minimum wage
last weekend i was talking with a few of my family members... younger family members... and to my surprise, they all saw the minimum wage hike as a bad idea... and for all the right reasons... i was surprised because these young people are very liberal...
Simple economics is only complex to liberals. If you raise the cost you lower the demand.
As another FReeper pointed out earlier, $0 is the real minimum wage.
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