Quote Originally Posted by Neveragain View Post
CA has the highest minimum wage in the nation. Can a person pay for all the basic needs in CA on $14.00 an hour?

The cutoff for food assistance in CA for a single person is $1064 a month. You can't work more than 20 hours a week at minimum wage in CA before losing benefits.

Minimum wage doesn't work in it's current form.
The minimum wage in California is $14 an hour, but the majority of employers are forced to offer a living wage in their areas to keep employees. The same supply and demand that so many Conservatives tout as the end all of fairness, also applies to a labor market. Simply put, an employer who doesn't offer a fair wage doesn't get employees.

I don't know what turnip truck you rolled off of, but a minimum wage is a protection for workers, not a universal wage that companies can't increase from to attract new hires. Case in point, tiled by a Panda Express in Reno the other day, starting wage is $16-$18 an hour, with AM crew starting at $22 an hour. In a state with a $9.75 an hour minimum wage, local employers have to offer more to attract employees. If they didn't paying a living wage, no one would work for them. This is consistent all across their neighbor California whom you obviously aren't familiar with.