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Will $15-an-hour wages help or hurt Californians in the restaurant biz?
Last month, California made economic history when Governor Brown signed a bill into law making California the first state in the country to raise the minimum wage from $10 an hour to $15 an hour by the year 2022. What does this increase mean for restaurants and people working in the food industry?
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readLast month, California made economic history when Governor Brown signed a bill into law making California the first state in the country to raise the minimum wage from $10 an hour to $15 an hour by the year 2022. What does this increase mean for restaurants and people working in the food industry? KCRW's Saul Gonzalez and Jonathan Bastian went to San Bernardino and Santa Barbara to find out. See who they talked to on KCRW's For the Curious blog.
Music: "Flor de Huevo" by Los Lobos
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The full episode
2 of 7Eddie Huang, 'A Date with a Dish,' peaches and pozole- 0:30Eddie Huang on the oppressive whiteness of the food world
- 13:08Will $15-an-hour wages help or hurt Californians in the restaurant biz?You’re reading this
- 21:59Life's a peach
- 29:08Jonathan Gold eats at a Vietnamese izakaya in Little Tokyo
- 38:14Donna Battle Pierce on Freda DeKnight and 'A Date with a Dish'
- 50:18Two Minutes of Pozole
- 52:31Gustavo Arellano eats at Little Arabia Lebanese Bakery in Anaheim