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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Oakland nixes proposal to gradually increase minimum wage

Isaih Hood examins some of his papers in the lobby of the Youth Employment Partnership on July 28, 2014 in Oakland, CA. At $9 an hour Oakland's Youth Employment Partnership can employ 1,000 Oakland teens to learn skills in offices, pick up trash or other jobs. A dramatic spike to Oakland's minimum wage that voters will consider in November may have the unintended consequence of making it much harder to hire at-risk youth who are desperate for subsidized and grant-funded minimum wage jobs that organizations like the YEP provides. If the wage jumps to $12.25 the group could only employ 700 teens -- a 30 percent drop.
Oakland nixes proposal to gradually increase minimum wage
The Oakland City Council voted late Tuesday to scrap a plan that called for a gradual increase in the city's minimum wage for nonprofits...

 



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