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California city approves highest-in-state $12.30 minimum wage

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RICHMOND, Calif. –  A San Francisco Bay Area city is on track to have the highest minimum wage in California.

The Richmond City Council voted 6-1 on Tuesday in favor of an ordinance that would raise minimum hourly pay in the city to $12.30 an hour by 2017.

That would be nearly $2 more than San Francisco’s current minimum wage, which is the highest in the region.

The state minimum wage is set to increase to $10 an hour in January 2016

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  1. joe6pak

    March 20th, 2014

    How long do you think it will be before someone proposes a maximum wage.

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  2. Drackxman

    March 20th, 2014

    This is unsustainable.

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  3. AvgDude

    March 20th, 2014

    Richmond is a shit hole; has been for decades. This is all symbolic. This ghetto will now end up shutter what few remaining businesses they had there.

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  4. OneLastTime

    March 20th, 2014

    If I didn’t have any jobs I’d raise the minimum wage to $50/hr.

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  5. MM

    March 20th, 2014

    Is economic illiteracy genetic? Or are some just predisposed to believe horseshit?

    Why not raise it to $20 or $30/hour? It’s because when you do carry this argument out to extremes, even the economically illiterate start to see(or smell) their idiocy.

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  6. nco77

    March 20th, 2014

    DATELINE: March 20, 2015
    California town has highest unemployment and fewest number of businesses operating in the state of California. Town officials cannot understand or explain what happened?

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  7. Left Coast Dan

    March 20th, 2014

    The beauty of the American system is that communities can try things like this and the market will prove it right or wrong. I’m going with nco77′s prediction.

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  8. venturaguy

    March 20th, 2014

    They are trying to soak Chevron – Richmond has a large Chevron refinery/storage facility that would be very expensive to move.
    or maybe they want gas to be $6 a gallon in the Bay area

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  9. bob

    March 20th, 2014

    I think Venturaguy is right.

    It’s cutting off your nose to spite your face.

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  10. fullcirclethinker

    March 20th, 2014

    Obviously the government is clearly in the union business mindset. Just like legally printing trillions of un-backed dollars. Chicago thuggery has gone nationwide…

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  11. Tim

    March 20th, 2014

    Why wait til 2017?

    Just do IT!

    Cowardly commies …

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  12. GI-had Joe

    March 20th, 2014

    The same mindset and personalities also led Detroit into the AmeriKan waste can. If nothing else, Richmond is leading the way toward Third World status.

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  13. xplodeit

    March 22nd, 2014

    Richmond is already a third world shit hole.

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