Takeaways from the July UC Regents Meeting
Napolitano Announces UC Minimum Wage Increase to $15 per hour by 2017 On the same day that a New York panel approved a proposed $15 per hour minimum wage for fast-food chain employees and a day after Los Angeles county decided to increase minimum wage...
Decisive Moments from the State of the Union
By Camille Carrillo and Alexa Lomberg Education “By the end of this decade, 2 in 3 job openings will require some higher education, 2 in 3. And yet, we still live in a country where too many bright, striving Americans are priced out of the...
Living with the Minimum Wage in a Gilded Age
Gov. Jerry Brown’s signing of AB10 gives 25 percent increase over the next three years in the minimum wage for low-wage workers. But questions remain as to whether it will keep low-wage workers from being exploited by corporations.