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UC Berkeley
Labor economist and co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California, Berkeley
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Sylvia Allegretto
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FROM Sylvia Allegretto
Which Way, L.A.?
Changes to California Minimum Wage and Wage Equality Laws The fight for a fair wage continues in 2016, when the state will raise its minimum wage once again, to $10 an hour. But women in particular have cause to celebrate next year as California will now have one of the toughest equal pay laws in the country.
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IKEA and Gap Raise Wages Recent moves by Gap and IKEA to raise wages for workers have been heralded as a step toward a living wage for all. But should we have to rely on private companies to step in where the government has stepped out? And is $10 an hour really a living wage?
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