Minimum wage – California initiative to raise to $15 an hour this November i.How
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Question
Minimum wage – California initiative to raise to $15 an hour this November
i.How will raising minimum wage help workers and the economy? ii. Who is behind the proposition? iii. Who is against it? iv. The legislature along with the governor recently passed a law in order to circumvent going to the ballot this November. Why? Which groups pressured them to pass a law? What did unions think of this move? Happy to get something now? Or did they want to see if the ballot initiative would pass in the Fall?
Explanation / Answer
Workers are paid more but unemployment increases as firms are reluctant to hire at high wage.
Labor and govt is behind the proposition
Firms are against it
In order to win the vote of labor union group
Labor union pressured them
Union think they are betteroff