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Signature gathering approved for initiative to increase minimum wage

by The AV Times Staff • August 4, 2015

LOS ANGELES – Backers of an initiative that would increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour statewide on Jan. 1, 2021, have received permission to begin gathering signatures, Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced.

What backers have dubbed the Fair Wage Act of 2016 would increase the minimum wage to $11 per hour on Jan. 1, 2017, and by $1 in each of the next four years. The minimum wage would then be adjusted annually based on the rate of inflation for the previous year, using the California Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers.

The minimum wage is $9 per hour and will increase to $10 per hour on New Year’s Day.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted last month to incrementally raise the minimum wage in unincorporated areas over the next five years, reaching $15 an hour by 2020.

Passage of the “Fair Wage” initiative would result in a change in annual state and local tax revenues potentially ranging from a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars to a gain of more than $1 billion, according to an analysis prepared by the Legislative Analyst’s Office and Department of Finance.

The analysis also found passage would result in increased state and local government spending of billions of dollars per year. Changes in state revenues from passage would affect required state budget reserves, debt payments, and funding for schools and community colleges.

Backers say passage would boost economic activity and increase tax revenues. Opponents of minimum wage increases have said the increases would lead to higher unemployment because of higher costs for businesses.

Valid signatures from 365,880 registered voters — 5 percent of the total votes cast for governor in the 2014 general election — must be submitted by Jan. 27 to qualify the measure for the November 2016 ballot, according to Padilla, who announced the start of signature gathering on Monday.

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Previous related story: County votes to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020

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39 comments for "Signature gathering approved for initiative to increase minimum wage"

  1. Jason Zink says

    August 5, 2015 at 7:27 am

    All I can say is I was making $18 dollars an hour in the late 1980’s in construction building houses and apartments in AV. Now workers don’t even make that in 2015. Utilities, gasoline, food, housing have all gone up and more people need government assistance then ever before. I’m sure it has a lot to do with illegals working for less(supply and demand). Something is wrong and out of whack, so It’s common sense I think to raise the minimum wage and have immigration reform that doesn’t hurt American workers.

    • Tony says

      August 6, 2015 at 8:27 am

      FYI,
      Most of “illegals” are in fact American workers! (I can tell you’re talking about Hispanics) because they all come from America in case you didnt know, all this continent is called America, so “don’t hurt American workers” includes all people from this continent.
      Now, if you are sure it has to do with illegals working for less, you maybe right, and it because the rich people that own the bussineses dont want a pay us citizens of USA more money, or it may be because we USA citizens are to lazy to go work in the fields that “illegals” will take.
      Also just for your information;
      There are lots of USA citizens (Whites,Blacks,Asians,Hispanics) working for less because they choose to, not because “illegals” are taking other better paid jobs, just go out and check any fast food restaurant and do a survey.

      • pirruris says

        August 29, 2015 at 10:37 am

        Tony, i agree. I am still wondering what the racist republicans wpu
        d do if, we actually deporyed all the undocomented human beigns. I wondet if they would actually send their kids to work the kitchens of BJ’s, Outback, Claim Jumper, the Yard House, etc. I wonder if they would send them to the hot fields of Bakersfield to pick my fruit? I think not. However, their racism is bigger than doing the right thing. Bunch of hypocrites. Also, remember…these are the God loving Christian Republican Party. LOL. If God was with us, he would be a hard core Democrat.

        • William says

          August 29, 2015 at 10:43 am

          They want to build a wall and send troops back to Iraq while complaining about the debt at the same time.

          Who are they gonna tax to pay for that stuff, the 1% that wants it done? LOL

          Every time one of our right wingers mentions the debt, consider that they want to increase the defense budget, apparently at no cost.

          • pirruris says

            August 29, 2015 at 2:12 pm

            I know, the republicans are funny. Then again, i am not surprise,this the same party that nominated Sara Palin, the genious that did not know that Africa was a continent and not a country. You know, the one that can see Russia from her back window. LOL.

      • RG says

        August 29, 2015 at 4:48 pm

        350,000 plus anchor babies born every year in the U.S. 71% of those are getting some type of welfare costing millions to the tax payers. Field workers in the past were able to come here on work visas. But with a socialist president who doesn’t enforce our immigration laws this country has been over burden with illegals. The liberal left always claim that republicans are racist. That is propaganda as always. Republicans want legal immigration. The left is the party of lies and illusion. They spew hatred for the 1% but without the 1% there would be no taxes paid in this country. We now have more people on welfare living below the poverty line than ever before. 90 million Americans out of work, the lowest teen employment in history. I know the truth hurts sometimes but the illegals are part of the country’s economic problems.

        • William says

          August 29, 2015 at 4:59 pm

          Hey Wb/RG

          Go look at the FBI graph of murders by illegal aliens since the 90s.

          During Clinton’s years, there was a somewhat steep decline then it leveled off slightly during the Bush years and then started a steeper decline till around 2010 when the last stats were on the graph.

          Yaah, libruls this and libruls that. You guys are so full of it.

          • Wb says

            August 31, 2015 at 7:24 am

            William.murders by illegals on the decline??so as long as people who are here illegaly,just kill fewer each year,it’s ok with you.tool

          • William says

            August 31, 2015 at 7:32 am

            Poor Wb/RG

            The point was that under Presidents Clinton and Obama the murder rate declined at a steeper rate than under Bush and a republican majority Congress for 6 years where the decline was a somewhat flatter line.

            I guess republicans are really full of it when they claim to be better at law enforcement.

            Poor, poor Wb/RG. Everything has to be s-p-e-l-l-e-d out for his weak mind. You’re making the Dolly Sisters look like geniuses and that’s pretty hard to do.

            You’re welcome.

          • Wb says

            August 31, 2015 at 7:35 am

            William.I wonder how many murders would be committed by illegals,if they weren’t here.but hey there on the decline.whoop.whoop.right william

          • William says

            August 31, 2015 at 8:11 am

            @Wb/RG
            You on the right have ‘hate’ on the brain most of the time. See Claire’s and Lady Liberty’s comments.

            You hate on the President and ‘libruls’ and you project a comment stating that illegal alien murders decreased more during Democratic administrations than republican ones as ‘hate’.

            You project too much and it shows.

            I bet a fact check of all comments by you, Claire, Lady Liberty et al versus mine and prirruris’s and Tim Scott’s would show that you guys lie, distort and misinform way more just like your right wing sources do such fox ‘new’s does.

          • Wb says

            August 31, 2015 at 8:17 am

            William.you forgot to answer.

          • Wb says

            August 31, 2015 at 8:33 am

            William.you posted some fbi graph shows murders by illegals are down under dems.that’s all you care about.I say one is too many.no matter what party.but you a sheeple and a minion.you do as dems say

          • William says

            August 31, 2015 at 11:41 am

            @wb

            It’s hopeless with you.

          • John says

            August 31, 2015 at 11:42 am

            @WB

            William never posted a graph from the FBI that show murders committed by illegals aliens. As far as I can tell, the FBI never released statistics of crimes committed only by illegal aliens.

          • William says

            August 31, 2015 at 12:48 pm

            @John

            Did you look it up?

            I Googled the question and there were many entries and one was a graph from the FBi from the late 90s till 2010.

            If you have some other contrary evidence, post it.

          • John says

            August 31, 2015 at 1:00 pm

            I did look it up.

            There is no graph from the FBI that shows the statistics of murders committed by illegal aliens.

            Post the link because I would really like to see it.

          • RG says

            August 31, 2015 at 1:16 pm

            William is always accusing everyone else for making up stuff but he is the one who is proven to be unreliable. He googles his ideas. Really now. Google came out and said they could sway an election by putting bogus facts and lies about anything they want to because people believe them. William doesn’t have any real concrete proof of his so called facts. He doesn’t have a clue on reality.

          • William says

            August 31, 2015 at 1:19 pm

            Here ya go, John

            http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/16/illegal-immigration-murder_n_5154959.html

            My original comment pointed out that crime rates dropped more markedly during Clinton’s 2 terms and then leveled off during the 2 Bush terms with a GOP majority in Congress, then started fallling again around 2008-9 when you-know-who became President.

            You can click on the graph to enlarge it so you can see it more clearly. It also shows that immigration rose at the same time.

            The point was republicans ain’t that great at law enforcement despite the boasting.

          • William says

            August 31, 2015 at 1:21 pm

            Thank you RG/Wb for typing a bunch of words.

          • William says

            August 31, 2015 at 1:56 pm

            Have you have a chance to look at the article and graph, John?

            The right is blaming President Obama and the Democrats for the all the immigation problems but the graph shows that while immigration soared, crime went down.

            The right merely picks out a particular tragedy such as the murder in San Francisco recently to paint a broad picture that doesn’t tell the whole story, which is typically what they do.

            However, the right is very quick to get over massacres such as Sandyhook where little children were gunned down because they don’t want to discuss gun violence. Hmm. Yet, fox ‘news’ spent weeks on the San Francisco killing because it involved an illegal alien.

            I guess when American citizens commit massacres it isn’t as tragic or deadly in their minds. Why is that?

            Please explain.

          • Wb says

            August 31, 2015 at 7:36 pm

            William, I dont give a damn about your graph.my point is about illegals, already breaking the law, , commiting just one murder, like the lady in san fran, as you say.go tell her dad and mom how illegal alien crime is down.after all its just one, right william.nothing to do with bush or obama.you are so obsessed with bush.how old are you,cuz untill you die, we are going to hear about a president who hasnt been around for over six years.nobody gives a damn about your bush theories. Its done, get over it, jeez.btw, why did barry soetoro change his name?

          • Wb says

            August 31, 2015 at 7:42 pm

            William, which laws would like anybody to follow? Is it illegal to come to this country without the proper paperwork and process.Thats ok to break this law, right william, cuz thats more votes for dems.

          • William says

            August 31, 2015 at 8:06 pm

            Wow! Some people really lose it here.

            Wb
            August 31, 2015 at 7:36 pm

            William, I dont give a damn about your graph.my point is about illegals, already breaking the law, , commiting just one murder, like the lady in san fran, as you say.go tell her dad and mom how illegal alien crime is down.after all its just one, right william.nothing to do with bush or obama.you are so obsessed with bush.how old are you,cuz untill you die, we are going to hear about a president who hasnt been around for over six years.nobody gives a damn about your bush theories. Its done, get over it, jeez.btw, why did barry soetoro change his name?

          • John says

            September 1, 2015 at 2:52 am

            @ Wiliam

            First, I would like to say thank you for the swift response on posting a link. Sorry I could not respond but had work to do and had to leave the computer.

            Now, here is the problem I had with your post.

            William wrote:
            “Go look at the FBI graph of murders by illegal aliens since the 90s.”

            Wb wrote:
            “William.you posted some fbi graph shows murders by illegals are down under dems.”

            I wrote:
            “There is no graph from the FBI that shows the statistics of murders committed by illegal aliens.”

            You had posted that the graph shows murders by illegal aliens when in fact the graph you linked to shows national homicide rate.

            You advertised that you knew of “a graph from the FBI that shows the murders by illegal aliens since the 90s.” I wanted to see that graph. Thus my issue with your post.

            I noticed from your link that the decline in the homicide rate leveled off when the undocumented population reached above 8 million in 2000. The homicide rate stayed about the same till 2007 when the undocumented population reached above 12 million.

            Then something happened when the undocumented population reached 12 million in 2007.

            The undocumented population started dropping in 2007, the same time the homicide rate started dropping again. The undocumented population dropped from 12 million in 2007 to about 11 million in 2009.

        • Tim Scott says

          August 29, 2015 at 5:56 pm

          You make it clear that you know the truth hurts…by how seldom you tell it.

          BS right wing talking point: “socialist president who doesn’t enforce our immigration laws.” Reality: President is not a socialist. Deportations of illegal aliens at record high levels year in year out.

          BS right wing talking point: “350,000 plus anchor babies born every year.” Politifact rates this “mostly false”. For one thing the number is inflated already at 350,000, so the plus is a super bloat on top of the exaggeration. For another, assuming that every illegal alien that has a baby is planing a “long game” where their grown child sponsors them for citizenship twenty years from now is ridiculous in the extreme. Illegal aliens are mostly trying to figure out how to survive the next twenty days. Thinking they are planning twenty year schemes is just paranoia.

          BS right wing talking point: “Without the one percent there would be no taxes paid in this country.” Reality: Even just talking about INCOME taxes, the top one percent pays about a third. When considering all the regressive (lower incomes pay a larger percentage, unlike the income tax which is our ONLY progressive tax) taxes that we have their burden drops and they pay less than a quarter of all combined federal taxes. Considering that the top 1% collects over 20% of the income the fact that they pay slightly more than 20% of the taxes could be considered “exactly fair share”…except for the fact that they get far more BENEFIT from the government for their “fair share” than the rest of us.

          BS right wing talking point: “The left is the party of lies and illusion.” Reality: The last Republican administration created a false intelligence picture that got us into the greatest foreign policy debacle in the history of the nation. That’s LYING. That administration presented a balanced budget EVERY year, and chanted to anyone who would listen how that meant they represented fiscal responsibility. Somehow following those “balanced” budgets led to doubling the national debt. This is because many spending items that EVERYONE knew were going to end up being met were left out to make the budget APPEAR balanced. That’s ILLUSION.

          • William says

            August 29, 2015 at 6:56 pm

            Tim. Tim. Don’t you know that ‘facts’ will cause them to melt like the Wicked Witch of the West?

            It was Alan Grayson (D-Fla) who nicknamed them the ‘lie factory’ and Wb/RG, Lady Liberty, Claire et al are here to prove it.

          • Tim Scott says

            August 29, 2015 at 11:15 pm

            Cause them to melt?

            Well, I suppose we can hope.

        • pirruris says

          August 30, 2015 at 9:04 pm

          RG, what is costing the tax payers millions is the “Corporate Welfare”that you and your racist republican party, conviniently like to not talk about. Also, here you are using the undocumemted humans as scapegoats, like all of your God loving Christian hypocrite republican party like to do. Fact of the matter is, all the good paying jobs are still taken by whinning greedy racist like you. Don’t believe me? Go stand at the entrance gates at Edwards Air Force Base, and Plant 42. Who has the jobs with Lockheed, Raytheon, Boeing, etc. Yes… the good paying jobs are stil held by your racist republicans. Yet, here you are complaining about undocumented human beigns, and abput how bad ypu have it. That said, the only ones sucking on the government tit, is you and the rest of your racist rublicans. Your problem is greed. Your biggest fear is that minorities will some day get those good paying jpbs and cushy pensions. I think it is time for you to STFU and trying to make pele believe that you care about taxpayers money. Instead of blamimg the the undocumented human beigns, you should thank God that you and your kids, don’t have to struggle.

        • pirrurisjr says

          August 30, 2015 at 9:19 pm

          RG, stop using the undocummented human beigns as scapegoats, mr. God loving christian. Your problem is greed. Your biggest fear is that one day, those minorities will take thosr goodaying jobs at Edwards, Plant 42, Lockheed, Boeign, etc. The only ones sucking on the government tit is you. Feed your BS to the birds.

        • pirrurisjr says

          August 30, 2015 at 9:27 pm

          RG, why are you not complaing about “corporate welfare”you hypocrite. You should go syand at the gate entrances at Edwards and Plant 42. Who still has all the good paying jpbs at the City of Palmdale? Yes, all the good paying jobs are still being held by the racist republicans like you that love to complaing about how bad they have it. Stop using the undocummented human beigns as scapegoats. When I start seing the undommented take the good paying jobs, i may start believing you. Right now, you need to stop with you nonesense BS.

  2. Stinger says

    August 4, 2015 at 9:09 pm

    I believe that this is a move that ensures drastic inflation, which will actually hurt those who it intends to help in the log run.

    • Just Saying says

      August 5, 2015 at 12:10 am

      Does that mean for all these years that prices went up without any wage increase can be called deflation? Maybe the two now have a chance to cancel each other out.
      I doubt anybody getting a min. wage raise will be stashing it into savings, meaning it all will be spent. The one and only thing that can improve an economy is spending.

      • William says

        August 5, 2015 at 1:46 am

        @Just Saying
        Exactly. It’s interesting how often opinions on such things together with predictions are rarely thought through for all the possible variables and intended and unintended outcomes. And, when their predictions don’t come true, they won’t acknowledge that and just go on and make more predictions of doom and gloom never learning from their mistakes.

        Remember all the predictions that the ACA aka Obamacare was going to destroy life as we know it. But, unfortunately for the psychics, the costs have been fairly well-controlled compared to the inflation in prior years.

        Cutting taxes on the 1% amusingly called the “job creators” was going to create jobs but they took the money and didn’t create all the projected jobs.

        Wages have been stagnant since (and likely because of) Reagan while productivity increased many times over. The benefits didn’t go to the people doing the work while executive compensation skyrocketed.

        Did Mitt Romney work any harder than his father did and who ran an auto company instead of buying companies like Mitt did, outsourcing the work, selling off the assets and leaving the federal government to cover for the raided pension funds. That’s called vulture capitalism and seems to be fine with low information republican voters who look to blame everyone but the real thieves for the rotten economy that resulted.

        I like to think that Mitt Romney still has nightmares when he still hears President Obama’s voice telling him “Please proceed, governor.” during their second debate. And, the fool did and it probably helped cost him the election. There’s a German word for what he did. It’s called ‘zugswang’ borrowed from chess which means a person is forced to make a move that only weakens his position.

        There’s another German word, schadenfreude, which describes the enjoyment we had when Mitt proceeded.

        There have been almost twice as many recessions during GOP administrations in the last 60 years compared to Democratic administrations. The stock market crashed in 1929, 1987 and in 2008, all during republican administrations.

        Yet, someone here named Claire says that ‘secular liberalism’ is responsible for undermining this country or something like that. No, Claire. It’s the ‘secular progressives/liberals’ who have to clean up the messes left behind by the republicans like FDR, Bill Clinton and President Obama have had to do. And, they do it while the republicans fight and obstruct and interfere like the spoiled rotten children they emulate. And, even threaten to and actually do shut down the government costing billions of dollars of wasted expenses while also complaining about government waste. Unreal.

        But, somehow, knowledge of all that just doesn’t register with people like Claire and Lady Liberty. Yet, they’ll blame the ‘secular progressives/liberals’ for failures brought about by republicans that Democrats are trying to clean up. Someone should do research on their brain functions and explain them to the rest of us.

        • pirruris says

          August 29, 2015 at 10:05 am

          William, you hit the nail right on the head.

          • William says

            August 29, 2015 at 10:40 am

            @pirruris

            They’re trying to kill me with their stupid comments/replies as I age considerably each time I read them and wonder WTF is the matter them. And, there are millions more like them. It’s disturbing. They are some of Trump’s suck up fans.

            Even when their stupid comments are debunked, they just move on to the next stupid right wing talking point.

            Wb/RG is still obsessing because the President saluted with a coffee cup in his hand while exiting either his plane or helicopter.

            Nothing gets through to them from the real world.

          • pirruris says

            August 29, 2015 at 2:21 pm

            William,does RG and WB know that Bush saluted with his dog on his hands?

          • William says

            August 29, 2015 at 2:47 pm

            To paraphrase Sergeant Schultz, “They know nothing!”

  3. Ruby says

    August 4, 2015 at 7:53 pm

    N/a

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