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"content": "\u003cp>Many nail salons in California may be systematically cheating their employees, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.advancingjustice-la.org/sites/default/files/nail-salon-case-filing.pdf\">lawsuit\u003c/a> filed in Orange County Superior Court by the civil rights organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.advancingjustice-la.org/\">Asian Americans Advancing Justice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four Vietnamese women have filed a lawsuit against their former employers, the owners of Tustin Nail Spa in the city of Orange. The women say salon owners violated \u003ca href=\"http://labor.ca.gov/laborlawreg.htm\">California labor laws \u003c/a>in a number of ways, including breaking \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/SB3_FAQ.htm\">minimum wage \u003c/a>law. It’s not the first time the salon has been accused of labor law transgressions — three years ago state officials fined Tustin Nail Spa $28,000 for violation of labor law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Laboni Hoq, litigation director for Asian Americans Advancing Justice and attorney for the four women filing the lawsuit, nail salons are one of the hidden labor segments in California where exploitation of workers is rampant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The practices that they were subject to at this nail salon,\" Hoq says, \"is really indicative of practices we've seen and heard about throughout the nail salon industry in Southern California and likely throughout the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/303405241\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 licensed nail salons in California -- roughly 70 percent of them are owned or staffed by Asian-Americans, predominantly Vietnamese-Americans. That's especially true in the Little Saigon area of Orange County, which boasts the largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam. Nail salons are in almost every small strip mall throughout Little Saigon. Within a few blocks of the Tustin Nail Spa there are a dozen other salons, including two right across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Fred Jones, executive director of the trade association \u003ca href=\"http://www.beautyfederation.org/\">Professional Beauty Federation of California\u003c/a>, nail salons offer a good entry opportunity -- both for unskilled workers to get a job and for entrepreneurs who want to start a business with limited capital. But as salons have proliferated, he says, competition has gotten cutthroat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With nail salons in particular, it’s really been a race to the bottom,” Jones says, “based solely on how cheap we can give a mani-pedi.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That pressure on owners to cut corners and cost is what's pushing the wage fight with employees, Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thu Hang Pham is one of the former workers filing the lawsuit. She says workers were required to clock in and out as employees, but in actuality worked many more hours, with few or no breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They would have paychecks, but those would not be true to what the hours were,\" Pham says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11275682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/NailSpa-800x811.jpg\" alt=\"Four women have filed a lawsuit against their former employers, the owners of Tustin Nail Spa in the city of Orange. 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The women say salon owners violated state labor laws in a number of ways, including breaking minimum wage law. \u003ccite>(David Gorn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit says the system of paying workers strictly on commission resulted in manicurists often working long hours for little pay, with the potential for salary to even fall below minimum wage. The tipping point for Pham came when salon owners wanted to change employees’ work designation to \"independent contractor\" — but without any of the benefits of being a contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They wanted us to rent the work stations, get an independent license, but all of those other things wouldn’t change, we still would have to give up 40 percent of our money to the owner,\" Pham says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California labor law says if business owners set the rates and hours of employment, they need to pay workers as employees, not contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helen Chen is coordinator of public programs at the UC Berkeley \u003ca href=\"http://lohp.org/\">Labor Occupational Health Program\u003c/a>. She says it’s extremely common in the nail salon industry for owners to avoid paying overtime, vacations or holidays, or even provide work breaks. But to do all of that to employees, and then make them pay for the privilege of working there, that seems to have hit a nerve with salon employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"MVpQOnuXM50hPItpxfN6WjkxLE9mCaQv\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This question of whether workers are independent contractors or employees is a gateway question for the nail salon community,” Chen says. “It can be very difficult to penetrate those employment practices and change them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is trying. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_2001-2050/ab_2025_cfa_20160627_181456_sen_comm.html\">new law \u003c/a>goes into effect in July in California -- as part of all license renewals, salon owners and workers will need to sign off on a basic understanding of California labor law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones of the Beauty Federation says the end result of changes in salary structure within the nail salon industry will be felt by consumers. The days of the impossibly cheap $16 mani-pedi could come to an end. He thinks that may not be a bad thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you see a nail salon that’s offering a mani-pedi for under $20, the first reaction of course, it’s human nature, is, 'Yippee! Let’s go!'\" Jones says. “But hopefully with some time and reflection, you need to start asking as a consumer, 'What goes into a manicure and a pedicure?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a common saying in the Vietnamese community: Don’t kick your bowl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, lawsuit proponents say, that means: don’t raise a fuss, even when you think employment practices might violate state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vietnamese nail salons are a closed and insular community, advocates say. 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"content": "\u003cp>Are minimum wage increases good for the economy on the whole or bad?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting an accurate, nuanced answer to that question is no easy task. There are all sorts of factors. Higher wages could incentivize businesses to automate jobs and lay off workers. They could also prompt companies to raise prices, which could turn off customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the equation, higher wages mean more money in the pockets of low-income workers, who could then spend more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://irle.berkeley.edu/effects-of-a-15-minimum-wage-in-california-and-fresno/\" target=\"_blank\">A new study\u003c/a> by UC Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment crunches the numbers for a bunch of these factors to try to predict the impacts of California's rising minimum wage, which will gradually increase to $15 per hour over the next six years. The study's authors came to two major conclusions: The state's higher wages will lead to large increases in pay for workers, and they will not result in major job losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Reich is a co-author of the paper, which focuses on data in Fresno County, a relatively poor area of the state. “I find that the effects that would be negative -- raising prices somewhat, negative effects on employment, more automation -- are countervailed by increased purchasing power that workers have,” Reich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Irvine economist David Neumark is skeptical about the UC Berkeley study. “It is clear from the many studies the Berkeley economists put out on predicted effects of minimum wages in the state, and in California cities, that they are picking assumptions that lead to favorable outcomes and minimize adverse consequences,” Neumark said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study does back up what CEO Bill Phelps is noticing at his fast-food chain, Wetzel’s Pretzels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phelps says the minimum wage increases have been great for his business because low-wage workers have more money to spend to buy pretzels. Sure, Phelps says the company has increased prices slightly, but he says any fall in demand for his products because of rising prices has been far outweighed by the extra business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/03/minimum-wage-goes-up-and-so-does-business-thats-what-this-fast-food-ceo-says-happened/\" target=\"_blank\">You can read more here\u003c/a> about what the CEO and franchise owners of Wetzel’s Pretzels are seeing happen at their stores.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reich said more than 5 million Californians will receive a raise through the state’s incremental increases in the minimum wage. Some economists fear that businesses will have to hike prices to pay their employees more, which could lead to fewer sales and then layoffs or job automation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reich and his colleagues calculated that price increases will generally be small and not have a major impact on sales. “A 99-cent burger might go up by a nickel if the minimum wage goes up from $10 to $15 over a five- or six-year period,” Reich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the kind of small price increase that's happening at Wetzel’s Pretzels, and CEO Bill Phelps says it has not hampered the sales bump that happens each time the state raises the minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Berkeley study is predictive, suggesting the economic effects in California in the years to come. The state is on track to arrive at a $15 minimum wage by 2023. And as those wages go up, economists will have more and more data to see if the predictions in the study actually come true.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When California began raising its minimum wage two years ago, Bill Phelps and his investors were worried. Phelps is CEO of a fast food company called Wetzel's Pretzels, which has almost 100 outlets in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/300755227\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like most business people I was concerned about it,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state increased the minimum wage in mid-2014 and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/31/legislature-approves-15-minimum-wage-brown-says-hell-sign-it/\" target=\"_blank\">just raised it again on Jan. 1 to $10.50 per hour\u003c/a> for companies that employ more than 25 people. Smaller businesses will have a delay in implementation, but will follow suit as California moves along on \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/docs/Fact_Sheet_Boosting_Californias_Minimum_Wage.pdf\">its schedule to\u003c/a> reach \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2014/03/10/minimum-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">$15 per hour by 2022\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I was shocked. I was stunned by the business.' \u003ccite>Bill Phelps, CEO of Wetzel's Pretzels\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Phelps and a lot of other fast food CEOs have been worried that wage increases will cut into profits, and that if they raise prices to compensate, fewer people will come eat. So two years ago, Phelps prepared to take a hit. But something else happened entirely. Sales at his California stores immediately shot up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was shocked,” Phelps says. “I was stunned by the business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same exact pattern took place again in 2016, when the minimum wage rose again, Phelps said. There was a wage increase, and then boom, a bump in same-store sales across the state that held for most of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phelps is now convinced minimum wage increases aren’t bad for the fast food business; in fact, he says, they’re great. Phelps said you can see why if you visit the Wetzel’s Pretzels franchise in Concord’s Sunvalley Shopping Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Making Dough and Dough\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the mall you can smell the pretzels from far away. As you get close, you hear the sound of a mixer banging dough. It has to run constantly to keep up with the demand for pretzels. Business has been good the last few years, said franchise owner Mike Jacobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My overall sales were something like 15 percent ahead after the first minimum wage bump, and now they're about 12 percent ahead this year,” Jacobs said. “It isn't because I'm such a great manager or smart guy, but the buying public has more money in their pocket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobs says not only are more people coming to shop, but they're buying more. Sure enough, as Jacobs and I talk, a mall employee stops in to buy a pretzel. He ends up also paying for a dipping sauce and a drink. Jacobs says sales like this are happening all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"XBVPxbV9j3gDCZa8AEN7NXTgBAjFsuyJ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe this is all just coincidence. Maybe California’s economy happened to jump at the same exact times the state raised minimum wages. Maybe the franchise owners all started doing something to increase sales. Even if minimum wage increases are also increasing sales for Wetzel’s Pretzels, who knows if a similar trend would happen at all fast food companies. Most Wetzel’s outlets are in places like malls, where there are lots of low-wage workers around to shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No economist has pored over the company’s data to do a proper case study. But there are at least a couple who would love to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Without Data\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley economist David Card has studied the minimum wage for over two decades. In the early 1990s, he published \u003ca href=\"http://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/njmin-aer.pdf\">this influential case study \u003c/a>that showed increasing the minimum wage did not reduce employment, as critics feared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Card said colleagues have long suspected that rising minimum wages could actually increase fast food sales in the U.S., but no one could prove it — because American fast food companies rarely give out detailed sales data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To test this theory, Card believes economists would need the kind of sales data Phelps is talking about at Wetzel’s Pretzels. It could be the missing piece. “Everyone knows it has been a gap,” Card said. “There has been a lot of speculation, but no one has figured out how to obtain the data.” If the data held up to analysis and Phelps is right, Card said it could help clear up a lot of misconceptions about minimum wage currently being touted as facts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the conventional wisdom in the fast food business is that a rising minimum wage is bad for the bottom line. It’s what Phelps feared. It’s what President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of Labor, fast food businessman Andy Puzder, maintains. And even though there are not good data to back it up, Card said some economists perpetuate the idea. By doing so, he said, they’re choosing to be political instead of scientific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Economists unfortunately have, within the crowd, quite a few people who are ideologically committed to the idea that any kind of price regulation is always bad,\" said Card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stakes on this issue are high, as \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/30/pay-to-rise-for-millions-as-19-states-increase-minimum-wage.html\">a number of states\u003c/a> are raising minimum wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11245101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11245101\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage.jpg\" alt=\"Supporters of a $15 per hour minimum wage rally outside the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 31, 2016.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of a $15 per hour minimum wage rally outside the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 31, 2016. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Pretzels and More Guitars\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The minimum wage increase has just been a godsend.' \u003ccite>Mike Jacobs, Wetzel's Pretzels franchisee\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At the mall in Concord, store owner Jacobs doesn’t need an economics case study to know he’s been doing well. “By my looking at it, the minimum wage increase has just been a godsend,” Jacobs said. “My income this year will be double what it was in 2013.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobs is already putting his own increased profits back into the economy. 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In the early 1990s, he published \u003ca href=\"http://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/njmin-aer.pdf\">this influential case study \u003c/a>that showed increasing the minimum wage did not reduce employment, as critics feared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Card said colleagues have long suspected that rising minimum wages could actually increase fast food sales in the U.S., but no one could prove it — because American fast food companies rarely give out detailed sales data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To test this theory, Card believes economists would need the kind of sales data Phelps is talking about at Wetzel’s Pretzels. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you’ve got kids, or are expecting one, you’ve probably been warned a million times: Child care is expensive. But just how expensive is it here in the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"http://www.childrenscouncil.org/families/find-child-care/child-care-costs/\">$1,800 a month\u003c/a> and up for an infant, according to Kim Kruckel with the \u003ca href=\"http://childcarelaw.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Child Care Law Center\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The price might come down a bit once your kid is walking or out of diapers, but not by much. It means that monthly expense is more than rent or a mortgage payment for most people. So why does child care cost so much?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/268329570\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Mackey, who’s spent the last 14 years turning the ground floor of her West Oakland house into a well-respected child care center, \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyparentsnetwork.org/recommend/preschool/lilnancy\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Nancy's Primary Schoolhouse\u003c/a>, says building her business hasn’t come cheap. Walking through colorful rooms filled with small children, Mackey points out a children's kitchen set that cost $300 and small tables that cost $200 apiece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one of the biggest costs for Mackey is labor. For the 12 kids enrolled at Miss Nancy's, as it's known, she has three assistants every day in order to comply with \u003ca href=\"http://www.daycare.com/california/\" target=\"_blank\">state-mandated staffing ratios\u003c/a>. And she has to pay her employees at least\u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/government/o/CityAdministration/d/MinimumWage/index.htm\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">$12.55 an hour\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> because of a minimum wage increase that Oakland\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/City_of_Oakland_Minimum_Wage_Increase_Initiative,_Measure_FF_(November_2014)\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">voters approved in 2014\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10978154\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10978154 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt='Nancy Mackey, better known as \"Miss Nancy", operates a Child Care facility out of her her Oakland home.' width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Mackey, better known as 'Miss Nancy,' operates a child care facility out of her Oakland home. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My staff deserves to get paid well. I pay them the best I can,\" says Mackey, who supported the ballot initiative. \"... And I pay them based upon how the parents are able to pay us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But passing that increase on to parents made for a tough discussion. Mackey called a meeting with parents after the minimum wage went into effect to talk about how daily rates would increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was gonna be kind of sudden,” said Erin McNerney, whose 2-year-old daughter comes to Mackey's home every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not something I thought about at all when we voted for the minimum wage in Oakland,” McNerney added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Business Owners Want a Cost of Living Adjustment, Too\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Those rising labor costs also mean that as a business owner, Mackey takes home less herself. So she and others like her are trying to ride the momentum of the \u003ca href=\"http://fightfor15.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Fight for 15\u003c/a>, the movement for a $15 minimum wage. After spending the last couple of years supporting a wage increase for their employees, they don’t want to be left behind, and are advocating for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katina Richardson, who runs a day care center out of her home in Hayward, was one of a group of early childhood educators marching through downtown Oakland in April, calling for increased state child care subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re setting us up for failure and we need more,\" said Richardson, who routinely works 12-hour days and estimates she ends up with less than $6 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have benefits. We don’t have retirement set up. At the end of the day, I’m working every day not knowing if I’ll ever be able to retire,” Richardson added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10978155\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10978155 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt='Child Care workers and their supporters march through downtown Oakland as part of a \"Fight for 15\" demonstration on April 14, 2016.' width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Child care workers and their supporters march through downtown Oakland as part of a 'Fight for 15' demonstration on April 14, 2016. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of Richardson’s families receive state subsidies to help pay for child care, but the state doesn’t pay much -- providers may end up receiving\u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/ece/documents/Welsh-Loveman_APA_5202015.pdf\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">as little as $4 or $5 an hour per child\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And as the minimum wage has been rising, that subsidy rate hasn’t gone up with it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, there’s a huge waiting list for those benefits — advocates say an estimated 300,000 people at last count. There are no official numbers, because in 2011 the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cabinetreport.com/budget-finance/no-money-for-accurate-count-of-childcare-needs\" target=\"_blank\">state eliminated funding to track the waiting list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa Harlan, who lives in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood with her four children, says she's been on the waiting list for 11 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My children never got child care. My parents actually helped me keep my children while me and my husband went to work,\" said Harlan. If her parents weren't around, Harlan says the family would probably move to Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson says the \u003ca href=\"http://womenscaucus.legislature.ca.gov/news/2016-02-11-lwc-releases-2016-budget-and-policy-priorities\" target=\"_blank\">Legislative Women’s Caucus requested $800 million\u003c/a> from this year’s budget for early child care and education. They want the money to pay, in part, for an increase to reimbursement rates, and to move thousands of children off the waiting list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole child care system in California has never been properly funded. Never,” said Jackson. “This is probably the most universally agreed to priority within the Legislature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Gov. Jerry Brown has indicated \u003ca href=\"http://edsource.org/2016/governor-offers-a-new-approach-but-no-new-funding-for-early-childhood-education/93034\" target=\"_blank\">it’s not on his list of priorities\u003c/a>. Lawmakers are negotiating with the governor over how much, if any, will be included in the final budget, which must be passed by June 15. Jackson admits that whatever they get would only be a drop in the bucket. It would take billions to provide affordable child care to everyone in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the minimum wage across the state continue to rise.\u003ca href=\"http://www.aghwlaw.com/bay-area-minimum-wages-on-the-rise-2016-increases-to-california-and-local-minimum-wages/\"> On July 1, it will hit $13 an hour in San Francisco and Emeryville\u003c/a>. California’s minimum wage is scheduled to rise every year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-minimum-wage-deal-20160326-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">and reach $15 an hour in 2022.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’ve got kids, or are expecting one, you’ve probably been warned a million times: Child care is expensive. But just how expensive is it here in the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"http://www.childrenscouncil.org/families/find-child-care/child-care-costs/\">$1,800 a month\u003c/a> and up for an infant, according to Kim Kruckel with the \u003ca href=\"http://childcarelaw.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Child Care Law Center\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The price might come down a bit once your kid is walking or out of diapers, but not by much. It means that monthly expense is more than rent or a mortgage payment for most people. So why does child care cost so much?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/268329570&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/268329570'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Mackey, who’s spent the last 14 years turning the ground floor of her West Oakland house into a well-respected child care center, \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyparentsnetwork.org/recommend/preschool/lilnancy\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Nancy's Primary Schoolhouse\u003c/a>, says building her business hasn’t come cheap. Walking through colorful rooms filled with small children, Mackey points out a children's kitchen set that cost $300 and small tables that cost $200 apiece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one of the biggest costs for Mackey is labor. For the 12 kids enrolled at Miss Nancy's, as it's known, she has three assistants every day in order to comply with \u003ca href=\"http://www.daycare.com/california/\" target=\"_blank\">state-mandated staffing ratios\u003c/a>. And she has to pay her employees at least\u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/government/o/CityAdministration/d/MinimumWage/index.htm\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">$12.55 an hour\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> because of a minimum wage increase that Oakland\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/City_of_Oakland_Minimum_Wage_Increase_Initiative,_Measure_FF_(November_2014)\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">voters approved in 2014\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10978154\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10978154 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt='Nancy Mackey, better known as \"Miss Nancy", operates a Child Care facility out of her her Oakland home.' width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Mackey, better known as 'Miss Nancy,' operates a child care facility out of her Oakland home. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My staff deserves to get paid well. I pay them the best I can,\" says Mackey, who supported the ballot initiative. \"... And I pay them based upon how the parents are able to pay us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But passing that increase on to parents made for a tough discussion. Mackey called a meeting with parents after the minimum wage went into effect to talk about how daily rates would increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was gonna be kind of sudden,” said Erin McNerney, whose 2-year-old daughter comes to Mackey's home every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not something I thought about at all when we voted for the minimum wage in Oakland,” McNerney added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Business Owners Want a Cost of Living Adjustment, Too\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Those rising labor costs also mean that as a business owner, Mackey takes home less herself. So she and others like her are trying to ride the momentum of the \u003ca href=\"http://fightfor15.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Fight for 15\u003c/a>, the movement for a $15 minimum wage. After spending the last couple of years supporting a wage increase for their employees, they don’t want to be left behind, and are advocating for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katina Richardson, who runs a day care center out of her home in Hayward, was one of a group of early childhood educators marching through downtown Oakland in April, calling for increased state child care subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re setting us up for failure and we need more,\" said Richardson, who routinely works 12-hour days and estimates she ends up with less than $6 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have benefits. We don’t have retirement set up. At the end of the day, I’m working every day not knowing if I’ll ever be able to retire,” Richardson added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10978155\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10978155 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt='Child Care workers and their supporters march through downtown Oakland as part of a \"Fight for 15\" demonstration on April 14, 2016.' width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Child care workers and their supporters march through downtown Oakland as part of a 'Fight for 15' demonstration on April 14, 2016. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of Richardson’s families receive state subsidies to help pay for child care, but the state doesn’t pay much -- providers may end up receiving\u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/ece/documents/Welsh-Loveman_APA_5202015.pdf\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">as little as $4 or $5 an hour per child\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. 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Lawmakers are negotiating with the governor over how much, if any, will be included in the final budget, which must be passed by June 15. Jackson admits that whatever they get would only be a drop in the bucket. It would take billions to provide affordable child care to everyone in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the minimum wage across the state continue to rise.\u003ca href=\"http://www.aghwlaw.com/bay-area-minimum-wages-on-the-rise-2016-increases-to-california-and-local-minimum-wages/\"> On July 1, it will hit $13 an hour in San Francisco and Emeryville\u003c/a>. California’s minimum wage is scheduled to rise every year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-minimum-wage-deal-20160326-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">and reach $15 an hour in 2022.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At Bee Sweet Citrus in the Central Valley town of Fowler, forklifts beep as workers load and pack oranges, lemons and mandarins that will be shipped all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Watkins runs farm operations here, and says most of his employees make above minimum wage right now. But he thinks a jump to $15 an hour will mean farmers have to pass that cost onto consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really, all we’re doing is causing the cost of food to go up, which makes less money in your take-home check at the end of the month, just cuz you’ve got to pay more for food,” Watkins says. “So to me, it’s just a revolving circle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movement to raise the minimum wage has largely come from cities, where restaurant and service workers have been pushing for an increase. 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