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View ArticleWill LA raise the minimum wage?
Photo via < ahref=”https://www.flickr.com/photos/ineffablepulchritude/”>Sarah/Flickr/CC The city of L.A. is getting closer to raising the city’s minimum wage from $9 to $15 an hour. A city...
View ArticleMixer: What other cities can teach LA about the minimum wage
The Los Angeles City Council is moving forward on a plan to raise the citywide minimum wage to $15 by 2020, up from the current $9 an hour. Labor leaders call it a major step forward for lifting...
View ArticleWhich California cities are raising the minimum wage?
The L.A. city council has voted to proceed with a plan to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020. Small businesses (those with 25 or fewer workers) will have until 2021 to raise their wage. The...
View ArticleWage theft and the minimum wage
As Los Angeles considers a minimum wage increase, the question of wage theft remains. Garment workers, restaurant workers, nail salon workers all receive minimum wage. And, sometimes even less. In...
View ArticleThe battle to raise the minimum wage in Los Angeles
Update: The LA City Council has voted 14-1 in favor of drafting a plan to raise the minimum wage. At a recent event at Los Angeles’ City Hall to honor L.A.’s small business owners, Mayor Eric Garcetti...
View ArticlePutting LA’s new minimum wage in context
The nearly unanimous vote was 14 to 1 Tuesday in the LA City Council in favor of raising the minimum wage. Mike Bonin, who represents most of the Westside, said raising the wage to $15 was “the least...
View ArticleHow will restaurants fare with the higher minimum wage?
Kevin Kathman executive chef at The Larchmont With minutes to go before the first diners arrive, the small kitchen of The Larchmont is busy. Wild leeks are being chopped while pans heat up on the...
View ArticleIs raising the minimum wage really the best policy?
Workers rally for a higher wage. (Photo: Saul Gonzalez) This week, LA city council voted almost unanimously to raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020. For labor activists, this was a big...
View ArticleMixer: For creatives, LA is great if you can afford it
In recent weeks and months, we’ve seen a flurry of coverage from national outlets like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, citing the great weather and the burgeoning gallery scene as...
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