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Will LA Increase the Minimum Wage to a Record Level?
The federal minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour, and Republicans in Congress want to keep it right there. California's is now $8 an hour, with an increase to $9 scheduled for this coming July and a bump to $10 in January of 2016.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readThe federal minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour, and Republicans in Congress want to keep it right there. California's is now $8 an hour, with an increase to $9 scheduled for this coming July and a bump to $10 in January of 2016. Now the LA City Council will decide whether to study the impact if hotels near LAX with more than 100 rooms had to pay workers $15.37 an hour.
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Jenny Hamel
KCRW
Kareem Maddox
Three-on-three basketball player in the final stages of qualifying for Olympics; former KCRW intern
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Curren Price, Jr.
Los Angeles City Council
Stuart Waldman
Valley Industry and Commerce Association
Ron Unz
Silicon Valley entrepreneur
The full episode
2 of 2Push for Minimum Wage Increase for Hotel Workers- 0:00Covered California Puts Out Its Enrollment Numbers
- 8:09Will LA Increase the Minimum Wage to a Record Level?You’re reading this