Submitted 20 hours ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to workreform@lemmy.world
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.
I voted against it because it tied minimum wage to the consumer price index, but not to the cost of living. CPI measures the inflation of goods and services only, not the cost of housing. Housing costs have outpaced inflation. We need to set a minimum living wage based on rent and food. If corporations and foreign investors are allowed to own housing, this problem won’t get better. We don’t need a law that is instantly outdated, and keeps people in poverty.
You’re basically saying you voted against it because it was only 3/4 of what you wanted, with zero downsides.
This is the dumbest take I have heard in a long time. This take is so mentally deficient it is special needs.
CPI is basically half of inflation and less than half of most people’s cost of living. Do you spend more on food or rent? Does the cost of food determine where you live and how far you commute?
By passing this “once and for all” bill, legislators won’t spend additional time on this for like 10 years at least. I’d rather have them keep working on it every year until they figure it out.
world in 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.
Are you on minimum wage? Or did you help the noble savages on minimum wage with this decision?
I worked for minimum wage at $7.25, at a time when I didn’t have to pay my own living expenses. Anyway adjusted for inflation/CPI that would be $13. It wasn’t anywhere close to enough then, and it’s not enough now. I don’t have the math in front of me but if you factor rent into it, minimum wage should probably be around $25/hr for a true livable wage. As it stands now minimum wage is a poverty wage suitable for secondary income only.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Good thing all the people who needed it most stayed home this election.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 14 hours ago
It’s not like the goal is to disenfranchise those people.
Sometimes very literally, mind you.