Los Angeles to increase minimum wage to $15/hour

[cooltigger21 0]

Having failed to learn the lesson Seattle is already learning, Los Angeles has voted to increase the minimum wage from 9 to 15 dollars an hour by 2020. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/us/los-angeles-expected-to-raise-minimum-wage-to-15-an-hour.html?_r=0

[Mims44 1,869]

Now it will only take 4 full time workers to afford a studio appt there.

[WarTim 3,456]

Idiocy defined

[cptau 169]

Luckily LA is spread out enough that it's just a short drive out to one of the other cities in the area where they'll still be able to buy a hamburger served by a human and not a robot.