California voters have rejected Prop 32, which would have raised the state’s minimum wage from $16 to $18.
With 100% of the ballots tallied, the measure was rejected by a 0.8% margin (50.8 - 49.2), according to the California Secretary of State’s office. The total vote difference for the proposition was 234,146.
would it not have been better to do something?
If it’s a band-aid fix, raise it by $2 to kick the can a couple years. But if you tie it to inflation you’re signaling that you’ve solved the problem of minimum wage.
i mean i get it, but at the same time people need bandaids.