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# Minimum Wage Hike in Californa

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_Published 2013-09-26. California's minimum wage will hit $10 an hour by 2016._


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## Transcript

California's low wage workers will soon become some of the best paid in the country. This will happen in stages. The current minimum wage in California is eight dollars. It's been stagnating there about five years, now. It's set to rise to nine dollars by July of next year and will eventually get to ten dollars by January of 2016. Governor Jerry Brown signed this into law yesterday calling it a wonderful thing. Especially since the cost of living in California is among the highest in the country. The new minimum wage will surpass Washington state which currently has the top minimum wage in the US at $ 9.

19 an hour. Though, it is also set to increase there. Of course hiking the minimum wage doesn't come without critics who says raising it is unfriendly to business and that employers have to cut hours and hire fewer workers to cover the cost of increase. They say that's not something California can afford right now where the jobless rate is currently 8. 9 %. The new law follows a wave of protest across the country by Wal- Mart and fast food workers who have been demanding to be paid more, and be given a chance to unionize.

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