Many of the salespeople who'll keep those retail cash registers ringing this holiday weekend work for minimum wage. Right now that's $8 an hour. In September, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislature that will raise it to $10 in 2016. But now support to raise it faster and higher is coming from an unlikely source -- Republican high tech entrepreneur Ron Unz. Earlier this week Unz proposed a state ballot measure for November of next year to raise the state's minimum wage up to $12 an hour by 2016. Unz is best known for another ballot measure, Proposition 227 in 1998, which essentially banned bilingual education in public schools. He spoke with Scott Shafer.
Ballot Measure Seeks to Raise Calif. Minimum Wage

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