Jerry Brown, lawmakers poised to hike California’s minimum wage to $10, By David Siders, September 12, 2013, Sacramento Bee: “A bill to raise the minimum wage in California to $10 an hour raced forward at the Capitol on Wednesday, with Democratic lawmakers poised to approve the measure and Gov. Jerry Brown announcing he would sign it. The increase in the state’s minimum wage from $8 to $10 by 2016 would be the first since 2008, when it was raised by 50 cents to $8…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty