California governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state’s minimum wage will rise to $17.40 next year, a ay floor set to become the highest of any US state.
The pay bump will go into effect starting 1 January, Newsom announced on Friday. The state’s current minimum rate is $16.90. In a news release, Newsom touted the move as a salve for working families amid high living costs and took a jab at the Trump administration.
“For years, Donald Trump and Republicans have blocked efforts to raise the federal minimum wage while handing tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations,” Newsom said.
Tie it to inflation motherfucker, stop claiming this as some kind of huge win
Oregon does this. At 16.80 in their metro areas atm. Different levels the further outside the bigger cities too.
It’s okay to be aggressive, and it’s also okay to be wrong. But one must not be both aggressive and wrong.
California’s minimum wage is tied to the Consumer Price Index. It increases every year according to inflation.
Edit: To be more specific, it is indexed to CPI-W.
Not just inflation - Lock it to purchasing power.
I’m not anti this by any means, we need better for the general people. But this at the time he continues to fuck with and freeze state workers is a bit frustrating.
I sure do wish these media outlets would stop jerking off Gavin Newsom. He’s only comparatively progressive.
How are they jacking him off? By reporting this? Feel threatened?
Well, no, it’s not that he’s being reported on, I just don’t like how he’s positioning himself as a sewer socialism progressive while being anything but. The media is broadly complicit in that framing and I fear he’ll be the next milquetoast DNC safety pick for president regardless of the generally shifted demographics preference away from that.
Can California block tax transfer payments to the feds? That’d be way cooler than a childish tweet.
How about you get a job?
I have a job nerd
the real taunt would be increasing the proposed minimum wage increase by one penny each time Trump signs an executive order (retroactively too).
Commies bitching in the comments about Noosem not doing enough, when literally no other state has a higher wage than this.
If this was Mamdani, you guys would be chanting “REVOLUTIONARY” 😂
But once again. Ignore any progress if it’s not from your favorite sports player-I mean politician
