Big news from the west coast about how California will raise the minimum wage, although gradually between now and 2016. Hopefully other states will follow suit. In fact, this should be national law.
California has become the first state in
the nation to commit to raising the minimum wage to $10 per hour, with
the increase to take place gradually through the start of 2016, under a
bill Democratic Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on Wednesday.
The law raises minimum pay in the most
populous U.S. state from its current rate of $8 per hour to $9 by July
2014, and $10 by January 2016, well above the current federal minimum
wage of $7.25 an hour.
There is a fascinating experiment going on in this country. Blue states are expanding marriage rights, increasing the minimum wage, and implementing The Affordable Health Care Act. Red states are doing the opposite. It will be very interesting to see what the country looks like in a decade when the states vary as much as they have at any time since the end of Jim Crow.
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