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Small Business Does the Math on the Minimum Wage
Mayor Eric Garcetti is pushing hard to raise the minimum wage for the City of Los Angeles. But there are 87 other cities in Los Angeles County. What’s to keep them from keeping wages low and stealing the small businesses so crucial to the local economy?
By Warren Olney • • 23m ListenMayor Eric Garcetti is pushing hard to raise the minimum wage for the City of Los Angeles. But there are 87 other cities in Los Angeles County. What’s to keep them from keeping wages low and stealing the small businesses so crucial to the local economy? We’ll hear from a Mom-and-Pop shop that’s on the move and from a restaurateur.
Also, if you’re driving your car at the moment, the car next to you could be driverless. But, until today, it didn’t need a license.
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2 storiesSmall Businesses Do the Math on Higher Wages
Mayor Eric Garcetti has met with business groups to push his proposal for raising the minimum wage in the City of Los Angeles. He’s met with some of the mayors of the 87 other cities in Los Angeles County. And he’s met with the editorial board of the LA Times, including Kerry Cavanaugh, who composed the paper’s official opinion.
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In Nevada, the state has been testing driverless cars. In California, they’ve been on the road—but until today, they didn’t even need permits. Mark Harris is a technology writer whose latest report is called, “ How Google’s Autonomous Car Passed the First US State Self-Driving Test “.
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