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California Legislature approves raising minimum wage to $10 — the highest of any state - San Jose Mercury News
With the added cost of Obamacare, the nations harshest environmental regulations, the nations highest income and sales taxes, and now with Browns certain signature, the nations highest minimum wage, how much longer do progressives think small business owners will be able to operate in California?
SACRAMENTO -- California's lowest-paid workers are in store for a 25 percent raise after lawmakers late Thursday boosted the Golden State's minimum wage to the highest of any state in the country.
In the final hours of its 2013 regular session, the Legislature voted to hike the minimum wage from $8 an hour to $9 next July and $10 by January 2016 -- a move Democrats praised as a boon to struggling workers and Republicans lambasted as a "job killer."
Gov. Jerry Brown has already promised to sign the bill, making California a leader in a growing movement to increase wages for the working poor spurred by protesting fast-food workers across the country.
In the final hours of its 2013 regular session, the Legislature voted to hike the minimum wage from $8 an hour to $9 next July and $10 by January 2016 -- a move Democrats praised as a boon to struggling workers and Republicans lambasted as a "job killer."
Gov. Jerry Brown has already promised to sign the bill, making California a leader in a growing movement to increase wages for the working poor spurred by protesting fast-food workers across the country.
With the added cost of Obamacare, the nations harshest environmental regulations, the nations highest income and sales taxes, and now with Browns certain signature, the nations highest minimum wage, how much longer do progressives think small business owners will be able to operate in California?