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Doesn’t it make more sense for employers to pay their workers than the government?”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Unz told KQED's Scott Shafer in an interview Tuesday his measure, when fully implemented, \"would put close to $15 billion a year extra into the pockets of California's low-wage workers. And that's an awful lot of money.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's current minimum wage, $8 an hour, is scheduled to rise to $10 by 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/09/jerry-brown-signs-bill-to-raise-california-minimum-wage.html\" target=\"_blank\">under legislation signed in September \u003c/a>by Gov. Jerry Brown. San Francisco and San Jose are among \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/livingwage/resources.shtml#ordinances\" target=\"_blank\">a long list of California cities\u003c/a> that have set their own minimum wages or living wages for at least some workers. In San Francisco, the \u003ca href=\"http://sfgsa.org/index.aspx?page=411\" target=\"_blank\">citywide minimum wage\u003c/a> is $10.55 and will rise to $10.74 on Jan. 1. Under \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/11397\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose's law\u003c/a>, the minimum wage was set at $10 earlier this year and will rise to $10.15 after the 1st of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'What we have right now is a crazy system where employers pay their workers so low wages that the taxpayers wind up providing billions of dollars of social-welfare subsidies for those same workers.'\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right !important;font-size: 12pt\">— Ron Unz, campaigning to raise minimum wage\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The federal minimum wage is currently set at $7.25 an hour. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Virtually any time an increase in the minimum wage is proposed, business groups protest that requiring employers to pay workers more will cost jobs and hurt the economy. The California Chamber of Commerce declared that this year's statewide minimum wage bill was a \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.calchamber.com/PressReleases/Pages/04082013-CalChamberReleases2013JobKillerList.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">job killer\u003c/a>.\" San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed campaigned against the 2012 ballot measure that raised the city's minimum wage, \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:1Xv1fHcdH3gJ:www.sanjoseca.gov/clerk/elections/2012Election/november/measure_forms/measure_d_against.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjV37uRl3JKVLlHCc6gMsTNrlgUylXlpRmA6-B0U96NsM3-RWExDKGJMe7Gc49o6FE3J4MGoYAofMv5R_1E5E7zJRiVBv8z7jxGeR6TpOcBnQMbHvBak_UM0RdJirN0gVyAXNuH&sig=AHIEtbTF2vGde50jNtNwx5-ZUruWLRg8Ew\" target=\"_blank\">arguing\u003c/a> that it would cost jobs and force residents \"to pay more for everything — groceries, gas, even a hamburger.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unz acknowledges there would be costs to raising the minimum wage, including higher prices for some goods and services. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.unz.com/article/raising-american-wages-by-raising-american-wages/\" target=\"_blank\">in an essay last wee\u003c/a>k, he said those costs would be more than balanced by the benefits of granting the lowest-paid workers a higher wage: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Leaving aside the obvious gains in financial and personal well-being for the lower strata of America’s working class, there would also be a large economic multiplier effect, boosting general business activity in our weak economy. America’s working poor tend to spend almost every dollar they earn, often even sinking into temporary debt on a monthly basis.[x] Raising the annual income of each such wage-earner couple by eight or ten thousand dollars would immediately send those same dollars flowing into the regular consumer economy, boosting sales and general economic activity. In effect, the proposal represents an enormous government stimulus package, but one targeting the working-poor and funded entirely by the private sector.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talking to Scott Shafer, Unz expanded on how raising the minimum wage might affect the cost of taxpayer-supported services for low-paid workers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>What we have right now is a crazy system where employers pay their workers so low wages that the taxpayers wind up providing billions of dollars of social-welfare subsidies for those same workers — food stamps, housing, earned-income tax credit, all those sorts of things. Now, under a logical system of free-market capitalism, employers should pay their own workers instead of forcing the taxpayers to pay them instead. What we have is a system in which employers have privatized the benefits of their workers — they get all the labor — while they've socialized many of the costs, forcing the taxpayers to cover the living costs of their own workers, which is ridiculous. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Immigration. Prison overcrowding. Hydraulic fracturing. The minimum wage. Those were just \u003cem>some\u003c/em> of the major issues California lawmakers tackled during a frantic week of legislating in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111193\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-111193\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/brownwhiffle-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"brownwhiffle\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As legislators passed bills in marathon sessions this week, Gov. Jerry Brown played some whiffle ball. (Governor’s Press Office)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2013 legislative session closed with a bang—more than 400 bills were sent to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk this week alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Maybe that’s why the governor got some \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GovPressOffice/status/378307237430558720/photo/1\">whiffle ball\u003c/a> action in yesterday—he’ll be too busy signing and vetoing bills the rest of the month to play.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the high-profile bills sent to Brown: a measure creating \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/09/california-sends-undocumented-immigrant-license-bill-to-gov-jerry-brown.html\">driver’s licenses \u003c/a>for undocumented immigrants; a bill increasing the\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/12/californias-minimum-wage/\"> minimum wage\u003c/a> from $8 to $10; \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/12/what-would-californias-fracking-bill-do/\">legislation regulating fracking\u003c/a>; a bill that would transition the state’s schools to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/11/110930/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new system of testing.\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s public endorsements of three of those bills (on driver’s licenses, fracking, and the minimum wage), plus his opposition to a resolution \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/13/bay-bridge-renamed-for-willie-brown\">renaming the Bay Bridge\u003c/a> for former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, illustrated how involved the governor was in wrangling votes this week. (When he wasn’t playing whiffle ball, that is.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much has been made this year of how Democrats would use their huge majorities in both houses of the Legislature. The Senate and Assembly didn’t push through any tax increases this session, but Democrats did pass a slew of bills helping undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the driver’s license measure, bills on Brown’s desk would allow undocumented immigrants to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/09/05/219177457/calif-gov-debates-changing-whos-eligible-for-jury-duty\">serve on juries\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/09/bill-letting-undocumented-immigrants-practice-law-heads-to-governor.html\">practice law\u003c/a>. Another measure \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/10/california-legislature-passes-trust-act\">prohibits police\u003c/a> from turning undocumented immigrants over to federal authorities unless the immigrants already have a violent felony on their record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature passed those bills at a time when immigration reform is deadlocked on the federal level. Another area where California is more aggressive than Congress: gun control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Obama’s efforts to tighten federal firearms laws went nowhere this year, but California lawmakers sent several \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-lawmakers-send-tough-gun-control-bills-to-the-governor-20130912,0,5610828.story\">gun-control bills\u003c/a> to the governor. This during a week when two Colorado state senators were \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/colorado-recall-elections-chill-push-gun-laws/story?id=20227650\">recalled\u003c/a> for voting for gun laws in a state that has experienced two infamous mass shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visit \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/09/13/midwifery-physical-therapy-pharmacists-bills-move-to-governors-desk-scope-of-practice/\">KQED’s State of Health\u003c/a> blog to learn about some of the health-related bills that advanced to the governor’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here’s more analysis from KQED’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/thisweek/\">This Week in Northern California.\u003c/a>”\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/V9MoHtBLkPM?start=93\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Aaron Tilley and Michael Stoll, \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhile San Francisco’s minimum wage is the highest in the nation, thousands of workers still earn below the current mandate of $10.55 an hour, say economists, anti-poverty activists and public officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96315\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/lydia.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96315\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/lydia-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"When Lydia Panitig came from the Philippines, she said, her teaching credentials did not transfer, so her only option was a $25-a-day cleaning job. (Aaron Tilley/San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When Lydia Panitig came from the Philippines, she said, her teaching credentials did not transfer, so her only option was a $25-a-day cleaning job. (Aaron Tilley/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It has been 10 years since voters passed the groundbreaking labor reform, and the city has built a first-of-its-kind inspection team that has recovered back wages for more than 3,000 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these efforts appear to have addressed only a fraction of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No local agency tracks minimum-wage jobs, so enforcement has relied on complaints from workers, who risk retaliation from employers by coming forward. But a recent study of other large cities suggest that San Francisco could have as many as 39,000 workers paid below the minimum. The 2008 Ford Foundation worker survey in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles found a 26 percent violation rate in a labor pool representing 15 percent of those cities’ populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local studies bolster those estimates. The Chinese Progressive Association estimated in 2006 that 9,000 Chinese restaurant and garment workers in San Francisco were cheated out of the city’s base rate of pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Congress begins to debate the national minimum wage this year, with President Obama’s proposal to increase it to $9 an hour taking center stage, San Francisco’s unfinished progressive labor reform could provide lessons for initiatives elsewhere to lift low-wage workers out of poverty. \u003cimg title=\"More...\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif\" alt=\"\">\u003cimg title=\"More...\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s experience suggests that they are likely to succeed only if existing laws are enforced, sending a message to both employers and workers that the minimum wage is not optional. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco labor inspectors say budget constraints limit them to investigating businesses only when their workers file claims. After years of partnering with community groups with deep roots in ethnic communities where the abuse is most widespread, the city is relying on the groups to produce educational workshops and provide the city with tips on violations, offering in exchange logistical support and funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of all minimum-wage violation cases that we handle involve the underground economy — workers who are paid in cash, employers who are not accurately tracking hours worked,” said Donna Levitt, director of the city’s Office of Labor Standards Enforcement, which in addition to the minimum wage enforces an array of other local labor rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and federal labor agencies face similar challenges, labor experts say. The profusion of small businesses paying low wages in the modern economy makes it impractical to initiate probes into industries where wage theft is widespread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though a lot of community groups would like to see us do more targeted outreach and not be complaint driven, it would take some work to figure out how to do that effectively and efficiently,” Levitt said. “But I’d love to do that, to see how we’d do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses across the city continue to skirt the law. As in other major cities across the country, they tend to concentrate in ethnic enclaves. In Chinatown alone, according to a 2010 survey by the Chinese Progressive Association, about half of the 433 surveyed restaurant workers received less than San Francisco’s legally mandated minimum wage, then $9.79 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A U.C. Berkeley political science graduate student, Els de Graauw, interviewed worker advocates in 2008. They told her some garment workers had such poor understanding of the law and “low expectations” of their earning potential that they sometimes settled for as little as $2 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers in other communities report similar degrees of exploitation. The Filipino Community Center surveyed 50 caregivers for the elderly and disabled, finding that they made an average hourly rate of $5.33. The group recently started social gatherings twice a month to persuade underpaid workers to come forward. The work, organizers say, requires constant vigilance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we first passed the minimum wage law,” said Shaw San Liu, a labor advocate with the Chinese Progressive Association, “it became apparent it’s meaningless if it can’t be enforced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers offer an array of excuses for why they pay below the minimum wage. Common ploys include deducting tips from a server’s paycheck (a practice banned throughout California), failing to pay overtime and making illegal deductions from salary for expenses like living quarters. Many are paid in cash, making violation claims hard to verify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty-eight percent of complaints come from workers in the food-service sector — cooks, dishwashers, baristas and waiters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction workers, hotel employees, security guards, home health aides and other service employees are also frequently illegally paid below the city’s base wage, which started in 2003 at $8.50 and is adjusted every year for inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, San Francisco’s minimum is more than $2 higher than California’s. The city also provides for fewer exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some workers say they fear that if they come forward they will be cast into long-term unemployment. Others fear deportation if federal agents are alerted to their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Levitt, of the city’s Office of Labor Standards Enforcement, building trust with workers is key. In each case, she said, a claimant “comes forward and tells us confidentially what the payment scheme is — from which we can build an investigation, and talk to other workers with some insider information about what’s going on, and let them know that they’re not the only ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>COMMUNITY PARTNERS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three community groups, the Chinese Progressive Association, the Filipino Community Center and La Raza Centro Legal, get funding from the city for primary education and outreach in ethnic minority communities, extending the labor standards office’s ability to find aggrieved workers. The city doubled its investment in the groups since 2007, to $380,000 this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of workers who show up to the Filipino Community Center’s outreach meetings are caretakers in group homes for disabled and elderly people. They are no strangers to being ripped off. They may not know the details of the minimum wage laws, said organizer Mario De Mira, “but many can just tell when they’re being broken. There’s a certain level of exploitation that happens to a lot of workers when they realize this isn’t right. It’s almost a moral thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earning the trust of workers is slow and painstaking work. Every other Wednesday evening, 15 to 20 laborers gather at the center’s offices in the largely working-class Excelsior neighborhood. Walls are lined with colorful motivational posters demanding worker justice. Traditional Filipino food is served. De Mira tries to determine which laws are being broken, and whether local labor officials should be tipped off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia Panitig worked for almost 30 years as a teacher in the Philippines. But when she moved to San Francisco in 2006, no school district would accept her professional experience. So she took a job that paid her not just below the San Francisco minimum wage, $8.82 at the time, but also well below the federal rate of $5.15. She received $25 a day as a cleaner and worked from midnight to 8 a.m. She said she never thought of going to labor officials to complain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually she found a better job. Now, at age 66, she is working for legal wages doing home care for 70 to 80 hours a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Panitig and her husband barely cover the rent on their $900-a-month San Francisco apartment, plus other expenses. Lacking U.S. teaching credentials, she said she is stuck at the bottom of the wage scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the only choice I have,” Panitig said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with more education about the minimum wage law, many workers are just grateful to have a job in the current labor market. And although undocumented immigrants qualify for the $10.55 local wage, they fear deportation if they report abuses, making identifying violations a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco has taken great strides to pass strong laws, but wage theft is still rampant,” said Charlotte Noss, a project attorney at the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, and co-chair of the city’s Wage Theft Task Force. “You still walk down a street in Chinatown and half of the workers you pass have experienced wage theft in the past week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PERENNIAL REFORMS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Supervisor Matt Gonzalez said the minimum wage law was cooked up over burritos late one night at Taqueria Cancún at 19th and Mission streets in 2001, when he and a few overworked legislative aides were debating ways to extend their pro-labor agenda to thousands of San Francisco’s low-wage workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We started wondering what the guys behind the counter were being paid,” Gonzalez said. “The following day we started researching the creation of a local minimum wage and whether it was preempted by state law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reformers answered that question resoundingly in 2003, when they teamed up with anti-poverty activists and the local Green Party to persuade 60 percent of voters to “vote yourself a raise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Minimum Wage Ordinance briefly elevated Gonzalez to the status of standard bearer for San Francisco’s political left wing, culminating in a close but unsuccessful run for mayor against Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After leaving the Board of Supervisors, he briefly carved out a new role for himself in the ecosystem of worker protections through his private practice as a lawyer, taking on class-action lawsuits against big-time minimum wage violators. In 2007, he settled a lawsuit over wages with Marriott Hotel for $1.35 million and contributed back some of the proceeds to the Office of Labor Standards Enforcement for pursuing minimum wage claims. (Gonzalez now works for the Public Defender’s Office.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While few cities have their own minimum wage laws, even fewer have local agencies devoted to enforcing them. Washington, D.C., and Santa Fe, N.M., rely on agencies whose focus is not labor regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the years, part of this work has been about learning together how to enforce labor laws,” said Liu of the Chinese Progressive Association. “There’s no one else to look to about how to run a city labor enforcement agency, because there are no others out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s labor standards office has come a long way since its founding in 2001, when it was given the task of enforcing the city’s “prevailing wage,” an elevated pay rate for local government contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levitt has been there since the beginning. Formerly a carpenter and a union representative, she joined the agency as a prevailing-wage investigator and became director two years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backers of the original Minimum Wage Ordinance have long pressed for more aggressive enforcement, and many have been frustrated by the city’s limited abilities to punish violators. Twice, in 2006 and 2011, they have enlisted politicians to strengthen the law and give the enforcement efforts more money and investigative authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wage Theft Prevention Ordinance, which the Board of Supervisors passed in 2011, amended the original law to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Increase the budget of the labor standards office to $3 million.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Double punitive fines to $1,000 per worker for businesses that retaliate against employees filing claims.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Authorize inspectors to access payroll records, interview workers and inspect work sites during business hours.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Double the funding for collaboration with community organizations.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>While it is too soon to tell whether these changes will appreciably increase collection of back wages from businesses, 2013 has been a good year so far. For the past three years, recovered wages have hovered between $707,000 and $831,000. But in just the first two months of this year, the city won back $813,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BUSINESS OPPOSITION\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists’ calls for more intensive minimum wage enforcement have their skeptics. Business lobbying groups, such as the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, have consistently opposed the minimum wage and enforcement initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both organizations came out against the 2003 minimum wage ballot initiative, describing it as a job killer. The restaurant association called it deceptive and labeled it a “lose-lose” plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Black, the restaurant association’s executive director, is a well-connected political activist; his organization gave $10,000 last year to a political action committee controlled by Mayor Ed Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(For his own part, the mayor has come out publicly in support of aggressive minimum wage law enforcement and signed the 2011 reform.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black said in an interview that restaurants and other small-business owners were burdened by myriad city, state and federal labor laws, and that there was no need to ramp up enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re so far ahead of enforcement of everybody else — it seems strange that’s where you’d want to focus your energy,” Black said, referring to the San Francisco agency dedicated to labor law enforcement. “Why not be in Oakland or L.A., where city government isn’t staffed or engaged in enforcement?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Herrera, the city attorney, ran for mayor against Lee in 2011, he proposed doubling the number of minimum-wage enforcement agents, citing “a significant backlog of wage violation complaints.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera said in a recent interview that the city has “received real benefit for the money that it has invested” in minimum wage enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levitt said a larger staff and more inspectors would be “wonderful,” but given the number of laws her office has to enforce, pushing more agents out into the field would not be an efficient use of resources. The office also oversees several labor laws other cities lack, including overtime pay, paid sick leave, universal health care and the prevailing wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The equivalent of 6.5 full-time employees are focused on minimum wage enforcement, so Levitt said the best use of their time is to concentrate on processing complaints. With a total staff of 17, she said, “I count my blessings. Of course, it doesn’t allow us to do proactive, targeted enforcement. But since we’ve never done that, I don’t know how valuable it would be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With improved education for employers, Levitt said, there is more awareness of the wage law, which reduces the number of offending businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could certainly get more employers to track hours properly, to post minimum wage notices,” she said. “But to build cases that would win back wages is much more challenging, and those investigations take time and involve building trusting relationships with workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WINNING BACK WAGES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, according to data from the Office of Labor Standards Enforcement, the city has recovered back wages in minimum wage cases for 3,079 workers, totaling $6.4 million, and has assessed $383,000 in additional fines on businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the office is complaint-driven, a single case can affect just one worker, or as many as 170. The culprits included cozy neighborhood coffee shops, chic downtown hotels and restaurants, construction companies and security services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some high-profile companies have been assessed back wages. Michael Minna, the celebrity restaurateur’s namesake San Francisco eatery, was found to owe almost $40,000 to 35 workers. Other cases have ended in tiny settlements, as when Starbucks paid $115 — enough to buy one grande cappuccino a day for a month — to one worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this February, the labor standards office scored one if its biggest victories. After a protracted battle with a bakery in Chinatown, it announced jointly with the City Attorney’s Office that it had won a record $525,000 in back wages and penalties from Dick Lee Pastry. The violations first surfaced in 2009, when organizers at the Chinese Progressive Association assembled a case against the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of Labor Standards Enforcement was able to get seven workers to come forward. Workers were on the job for long hours, six days a week and being paid less than $4 an hour. Two workers, labor officials said, were even made to work in the employer’s home as maids after toiling long days at the restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the majority of workers it was their first job in the U.S.,” Levitt said. “They got it because they saw a ‘help wanted’ sign in the window.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera filed a lawsuit to ensure that the owners could not shut down the establishment to avoid paying the back wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the workers, the settlement with Dick Lee Pastry was a long time coming. In many other cases, workers must delay their gratification. While half of all the labor office’s cases that were ultimately resolved in favor of workers were settled within three months, about 10 percent of cases have dragged on for more than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With better funding, Levitt said, the office could improve investigation speed by updating its case-management database. “Now that the city’s budget looks better, I’ll be more comfortable asking for it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another problem that activists routinely cite: No local agency routinely tracks the number of workers who make (or are legally entitled to) the minimum wage. Labor advocates say that in order to set good policy, the city needs more accurate and up-to-date data on the size of the target population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best estimates come from academic and government sources. The San Francisco Controller’s Office relied on 2011 estimates from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics in calculating that about 59,700 workers earned the San Francisco minimum wage of $9.92 or less in Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties. San Francisco makes up 45 percent of the population of those three counties. However, the federal data do not say how those minimum-wage workers are distributed among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Reich, a researcher at the Institute for Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley, estimates that as many as 55,000 people now “qualify” for the city’s wage of $10.55 — meaning they earn either the minimum or below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists and local officials are still working on new reforms. Recently they reconvened in City Hall to devise additional strategies to combat “wage theft,” particularly affecting minimum-wage workers. That effort, under the banner of the Wage Theft Task Force, has just begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liu said that initially advocates had scant resources to enforce the law. “So it’s always been a process of people on the ground trying to get these issues recognized by city leadership, and working to get laws and resources in place,” she said. “Protecting workers’ rights and labor standards has always been an uphill political battle.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Congress begins to debate the national minimum wage this year, with President Obama’s proposal to increase it to $9 an hour taking center stage, San Francisco’s unfinished progressive labor reform could provide lessons for initiatives elsewhere to lift low-wage workers out of poverty. \u003cimg title=\"More...\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif\" alt=\"\">\u003cimg title=\"More...\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s experience suggests that they are likely to succeed only if existing laws are enforced, sending a message to both employers and workers that the minimum wage is not optional. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco labor inspectors say budget constraints limit them to investigating businesses only when their workers file claims. After years of partnering with community groups with deep roots in ethnic communities where the abuse is most widespread, the city is relying on the groups to produce educational workshops and provide the city with tips on violations, offering in exchange logistical support and funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of all minimum-wage violation cases that we handle involve the underground economy — workers who are paid in cash, employers who are not accurately tracking hours worked,” said Donna Levitt, director of the city’s Office of Labor Standards Enforcement, which in addition to the minimum wage enforces an array of other local labor rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and federal labor agencies face similar challenges, labor experts say. The profusion of small businesses paying low wages in the modern economy makes it impractical to initiate probes into industries where wage theft is widespread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though a lot of community groups would like to see us do more targeted outreach and not be complaint driven, it would take some work to figure out how to do that effectively and efficiently,” Levitt said. “But I’d love to do that, to see how we’d do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses across the city continue to skirt the law. As in other major cities across the country, they tend to concentrate in ethnic enclaves. In Chinatown alone, according to a 2010 survey by the Chinese Progressive Association, about half of the 433 surveyed restaurant workers received less than San Francisco’s legally mandated minimum wage, then $9.79 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A U.C. Berkeley political science graduate student, Els de Graauw, interviewed worker advocates in 2008. They told her some garment workers had such poor understanding of the law and “low expectations” of their earning potential that they sometimes settled for as little as $2 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers in other communities report similar degrees of exploitation. The Filipino Community Center surveyed 50 caregivers for the elderly and disabled, finding that they made an average hourly rate of $5.33. The group recently started social gatherings twice a month to persuade underpaid workers to come forward. The work, organizers say, requires constant vigilance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we first passed the minimum wage law,” said Shaw San Liu, a labor advocate with the Chinese Progressive Association, “it became apparent it’s meaningless if it can’t be enforced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers offer an array of excuses for why they pay below the minimum wage. Common ploys include deducting tips from a server’s paycheck (a practice banned throughout California), failing to pay overtime and making illegal deductions from salary for expenses like living quarters. Many are paid in cash, making violation claims hard to verify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty-eight percent of complaints come from workers in the food-service sector — cooks, dishwashers, baristas and waiters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction workers, hotel employees, security guards, home health aides and other service employees are also frequently illegally paid below the city’s base wage, which started in 2003 at $8.50 and is adjusted every year for inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, San Francisco’s minimum is more than $2 higher than California’s. The city also provides for fewer exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some workers say they fear that if they come forward they will be cast into long-term unemployment. Others fear deportation if federal agents are alerted to their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Levitt, of the city’s Office of Labor Standards Enforcement, building trust with workers is key. In each case, she said, a claimant “comes forward and tells us confidentially what the payment scheme is — from which we can build an investigation, and talk to other workers with some insider information about what’s going on, and let them know that they’re not the only ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>COMMUNITY PARTNERS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three community groups, the Chinese Progressive Association, the Filipino Community Center and La Raza Centro Legal, get funding from the city for primary education and outreach in ethnic minority communities, extending the labor standards office’s ability to find aggrieved workers. The city doubled its investment in the groups since 2007, to $380,000 this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of workers who show up to the Filipino Community Center’s outreach meetings are caretakers in group homes for disabled and elderly people. They are no strangers to being ripped off. They may not know the details of the minimum wage laws, said organizer Mario De Mira, “but many can just tell when they’re being broken. There’s a certain level of exploitation that happens to a lot of workers when they realize this isn’t right. It’s almost a moral thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earning the trust of workers is slow and painstaking work. Every other Wednesday evening, 15 to 20 laborers gather at the center’s offices in the largely working-class Excelsior neighborhood. Walls are lined with colorful motivational posters demanding worker justice. Traditional Filipino food is served. De Mira tries to determine which laws are being broken, and whether local labor officials should be tipped off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia Panitig worked for almost 30 years as a teacher in the Philippines. But when she moved to San Francisco in 2006, no school district would accept her professional experience. So she took a job that paid her not just below the San Francisco minimum wage, $8.82 at the time, but also well below the federal rate of $5.15. She received $25 a day as a cleaner and worked from midnight to 8 a.m. She said she never thought of going to labor officials to complain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually she found a better job. Now, at age 66, she is working for legal wages doing home care for 70 to 80 hours a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Panitig and her husband barely cover the rent on their $900-a-month San Francisco apartment, plus other expenses. Lacking U.S. teaching credentials, she said she is stuck at the bottom of the wage scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the only choice I have,” Panitig said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with more education about the minimum wage law, many workers are just grateful to have a job in the current labor market. And although undocumented immigrants qualify for the $10.55 local wage, they fear deportation if they report abuses, making identifying violations a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco has taken great strides to pass strong laws, but wage theft is still rampant,” said Charlotte Noss, a project attorney at the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, and co-chair of the city’s Wage Theft Task Force. “You still walk down a street in Chinatown and half of the workers you pass have experienced wage theft in the past week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PERENNIAL REFORMS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Supervisor Matt Gonzalez said the minimum wage law was cooked up over burritos late one night at Taqueria Cancún at 19th and Mission streets in 2001, when he and a few overworked legislative aides were debating ways to extend their pro-labor agenda to thousands of San Francisco’s low-wage workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We started wondering what the guys behind the counter were being paid,” Gonzalez said. “The following day we started researching the creation of a local minimum wage and whether it was preempted by state law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reformers answered that question resoundingly in 2003, when they teamed up with anti-poverty activists and the local Green Party to persuade 60 percent of voters to “vote yourself a raise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Minimum Wage Ordinance briefly elevated Gonzalez to the status of standard bearer for San Francisco’s political left wing, culminating in a close but unsuccessful run for mayor against Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After leaving the Board of Supervisors, he briefly carved out a new role for himself in the ecosystem of worker protections through his private practice as a lawyer, taking on class-action lawsuits against big-time minimum wage violators. In 2007, he settled a lawsuit over wages with Marriott Hotel for $1.35 million and contributed back some of the proceeds to the Office of Labor Standards Enforcement for pursuing minimum wage claims. (Gonzalez now works for the Public Defender’s Office.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While few cities have their own minimum wage laws, even fewer have local agencies devoted to enforcing them. Washington, D.C., and Santa Fe, N.M., rely on agencies whose focus is not labor regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the years, part of this work has been about learning together how to enforce labor laws,” said Liu of the Chinese Progressive Association. “There’s no one else to look to about how to run a city labor enforcement agency, because there are no others out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s labor standards office has come a long way since its founding in 2001, when it was given the task of enforcing the city’s “prevailing wage,” an elevated pay rate for local government contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levitt has been there since the beginning. Formerly a carpenter and a union representative, she joined the agency as a prevailing-wage investigator and became director two years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backers of the original Minimum Wage Ordinance have long pressed for more aggressive enforcement, and many have been frustrated by the city’s limited abilities to punish violators. Twice, in 2006 and 2011, they have enlisted politicians to strengthen the law and give the enforcement efforts more money and investigative authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wage Theft Prevention Ordinance, which the Board of Supervisors passed in 2011, amended the original law to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Increase the budget of the labor standards office to $3 million.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Double punitive fines to $1,000 per worker for businesses that retaliate against employees filing claims.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Authorize inspectors to access payroll records, interview workers and inspect work sites during business hours.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Double the funding for collaboration with community organizations.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>While it is too soon to tell whether these changes will appreciably increase collection of back wages from businesses, 2013 has been a good year so far. For the past three years, recovered wages have hovered between $707,000 and $831,000. But in just the first two months of this year, the city won back $813,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BUSINESS OPPOSITION\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists’ calls for more intensive minimum wage enforcement have their skeptics. Business lobbying groups, such as the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, have consistently opposed the minimum wage and enforcement initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both organizations came out against the 2003 minimum wage ballot initiative, describing it as a job killer. The restaurant association called it deceptive and labeled it a “lose-lose” plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Black, the restaurant association’s executive director, is a well-connected political activist; his organization gave $10,000 last year to a political action committee controlled by Mayor Ed Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(For his own part, the mayor has come out publicly in support of aggressive minimum wage law enforcement and signed the 2011 reform.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black said in an interview that restaurants and other small-business owners were burdened by myriad city, state and federal labor laws, and that there was no need to ramp up enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re so far ahead of enforcement of everybody else — it seems strange that’s where you’d want to focus your energy,” Black said, referring to the San Francisco agency dedicated to labor law enforcement. “Why not be in Oakland or L.A., where city government isn’t staffed or engaged in enforcement?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Herrera, the city attorney, ran for mayor against Lee in 2011, he proposed doubling the number of minimum-wage enforcement agents, citing “a significant backlog of wage violation complaints.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera said in a recent interview that the city has “received real benefit for the money that it has invested” in minimum wage enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levitt said a larger staff and more inspectors would be “wonderful,” but given the number of laws her office has to enforce, pushing more agents out into the field would not be an efficient use of resources. The office also oversees several labor laws other cities lack, including overtime pay, paid sick leave, universal health care and the prevailing wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The equivalent of 6.5 full-time employees are focused on minimum wage enforcement, so Levitt said the best use of their time is to concentrate on processing complaints. With a total staff of 17, she said, “I count my blessings. Of course, it doesn’t allow us to do proactive, targeted enforcement. But since we’ve never done that, I don’t know how valuable it would be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With improved education for employers, Levitt said, there is more awareness of the wage law, which reduces the number of offending businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could certainly get more employers to track hours properly, to post minimum wage notices,” she said. “But to build cases that would win back wages is much more challenging, and those investigations take time and involve building trusting relationships with workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WINNING BACK WAGES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, according to data from the Office of Labor Standards Enforcement, the city has recovered back wages in minimum wage cases for 3,079 workers, totaling $6.4 million, and has assessed $383,000 in additional fines on businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the office is complaint-driven, a single case can affect just one worker, or as many as 170. The culprits included cozy neighborhood coffee shops, chic downtown hotels and restaurants, construction companies and security services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some high-profile companies have been assessed back wages. Michael Minna, the celebrity restaurateur’s namesake San Francisco eatery, was found to owe almost $40,000 to 35 workers. Other cases have ended in tiny settlements, as when Starbucks paid $115 — enough to buy one grande cappuccino a day for a month — to one worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this February, the labor standards office scored one if its biggest victories. After a protracted battle with a bakery in Chinatown, it announced jointly with the City Attorney’s Office that it had won a record $525,000 in back wages and penalties from Dick Lee Pastry. The violations first surfaced in 2009, when organizers at the Chinese Progressive Association assembled a case against the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of Labor Standards Enforcement was able to get seven workers to come forward. Workers were on the job for long hours, six days a week and being paid less than $4 an hour. Two workers, labor officials said, were even made to work in the employer’s home as maids after toiling long days at the restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the majority of workers it was their first job in the U.S.,” Levitt said. “They got it because they saw a ‘help wanted’ sign in the window.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera filed a lawsuit to ensure that the owners could not shut down the establishment to avoid paying the back wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the workers, the settlement with Dick Lee Pastry was a long time coming. In many other cases, workers must delay their gratification. While half of all the labor office’s cases that were ultimately resolved in favor of workers were settled within three months, about 10 percent of cases have dragged on for more than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With better funding, Levitt said, the office could improve investigation speed by updating its case-management database. “Now that the city’s budget looks better, I’ll be more comfortable asking for it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another problem that activists routinely cite: No local agency routinely tracks the number of workers who make (or are legally entitled to) the minimum wage. Labor advocates say that in order to set good policy, the city needs more accurate and up-to-date data on the size of the target population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best estimates come from academic and government sources. The San Francisco Controller’s Office relied on 2011 estimates from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics in calculating that about 59,700 workers earned the San Francisco minimum wage of $9.92 or less in Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties. San Francisco makes up 45 percent of the population of those three counties. However, the federal data do not say how those minimum-wage workers are distributed among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Reich, a researcher at the Institute for Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley, estimates that as many as 55,000 people now “qualify” for the city’s wage of $10.55 — meaning they earn either the minimum or below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists and local officials are still working on new reforms. Recently they reconvened in City Hall to devise additional strategies to combat “wage theft,” particularly affecting minimum-wage workers. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Bernice Yeung, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/california-workers-rally-minimum-wage-increase-17229\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California workers in Inglewood and Sacramento will join labor advocates across the country at rallies today to support forthcoming legislation by U.S. Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., that would increase the federal minimum wage by $2.55 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_71332\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/68751915@N05/6757842133/sizes/m/in/photostream/\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/w-2form-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"w-2form\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71332\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: 401(K) 2012/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under Miller’s \u003ca href=\"http://democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/issue/fair-minimum-wage-act-2012\" target=\"_blank\">proposal\u003c/a>, the minimum wage would jump from $7.25 to $9.80 per hour over three years, and wages would then subsequently be adjusted for inflation each year. The federal minimum wage last was raised in 2007 from $5.15 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Raising the minimum wage is about respecting work for the millions of Americans who work hard every day yet still live in poverty,” Aaron Albright, a spokesman for the House Education and the Workforce Committee Democrats, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact remains that the minimum wage today buys less than it did in 1956,” he added. “It’s time to start valuing and respecting those who work hard and play by the rules.” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, introduced a \u003ca href=\"http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:S.2252:\" target=\"_blank\">similar bill\u003c/a> in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although California’s minimum wage is higher than the federal standard at $8 per hour, state labor advocates said wage improvements still need to be made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Eight dollars an hour is still not enough to support a family, and it's not even enough to support an individual who has hopes of a decent life,\" said Jacob Hay of Good Jobs LA, a group that advocates for workers’ rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents for the federal increase said the current minimum wage amounts to earnings of about $15,000 a year for a full-time worker, and because wages have not been tied to inflation, the real purchasing power of minimum wage has fallen to $6.77 per hour in the past three years. In California, the yearly paycheck for minimum wage employees who work 40 hours a week is about $16,600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But business organizations oppose proposals that increase the minimum wage because they said it could reduce the number of jobs that are available in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mandatory wage increases hurt not only small businesses, but their employees as well,” the National Federation of Independent Business states on its \u003ca href=\"http://www.nfib.com/advocacy/item/cmsid/240\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a>. “Big corporations do not have to absorb the cost because most minimum-wage jobs are offered by small businesses. It has not been proven to reduce poverty or narrow the income gap and puts a stranglehold on America's top job creators: small businesses. The overwhelming majority of economists continue to affirm the job-killing nature of mandatory wage increases: mandatory minimum-wage increases end up reducing employment levels for those people with the lowest skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.nelp.org/page/-/rtmw/NELP-Big-Business-Corporate-Profits-Minimum-Wage.pdf?nocdn=1\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> released last week by the National Employment Law Project, an employee rights advocacy organization, said most low-wage workers are, in fact, employees of corporations that are in a “strong financial position,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the low-wage employers that would be disproportionately affected by an increase in the minimum wage are in a strong financial position and can afford the cost of a higher minimum wage,” the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policy discussions about raising the minimum wage long have been a battle of conflicting research over its true economic effects, said Jeannette Wicks-Lim, an assistant research professor at the University of Massachusetts’ Political Economy Research Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The main reason why people are concerned about the impact on minimum wage of low-wage workers is over whether it will jeopardize business opportunities,” she said. “There is a ton of research on this question, and the debate has been going on back and forth decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicks-Lim said the recent research shows\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>minimum wage laws enacted in the past “have not had a negative impact on workers’ job opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Increases to minimum wage have not produced the loss of jobs in the ways that opponents of these types of proposals predict,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the federal bill, there also are efforts to increase the minimum wage in San Jose, where voters will consider a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/clerk/minwage/minimum_wage.asp\" target=\"_blank\">ballot initiative\u003c/a> in November that would give minimum wage workers a raise to $10 per hour. Wages also would be adjusted for inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal emerged from a San Jose State University sociology class taught by Scott Myers-Lipton. “Faced with the rising costs of gas, food, and tuition, the students concluded that making a wage of $8 an hour was simply not enough to live in Silicon Valley,” he wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative is partially modeled on a wage policy in San Francisco that establishes a higher minimum wage than the rest of the state at $10.24 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business organizations said the San Jose initiative would negatively affect the local economy. “If $8 an hour is not livable, then neither is $10, frankly,” said Tab Berg, a consultant for a coalition of business groups called Save San Jose Jobs, Oppose Government Mandated Wage Hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the initiative, the increase in wages “isn’t going to be a significant change for workers, but what it will do is limit the number of jobs that are going to be available at that wage level, and it will be worse off for the people that they (the bill proponents) say they are going to help,” Berg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Small-business owners in downtown San Jose’s San Pedro Square Market said recently that while they are sympathetic to minimum wage employees and supported the raise in concept, they also had concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose Mendoza, who owns Ay Dios Mio, a boutique specializing in Mexican folk art accessories and gifts, said increases to the minimum wage should be tied to an economic benchmark like the Consumer Price Index.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want a raise every year, and so do minimum wage workers,” said Mendoza, who also works in the finance department of tech company Intel. “I support an increase, but it should be done annually and tied to an economic indicator, and then I think it would be very fair to employers, and workers could keep up with inflation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Millares of The Showroom, an apparel store, said he also feels conflicted about the minimum wage proposal. He opened the shop in May and said, “Technically, we’re still starting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the need for a raise to minimum wage, but it makes me really not want to hire someone,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Marcus Sparks, 18, helped spread the word about the rallies in Sacramento, he will not participate in them because he will be earning minimum wage that day as a fry cook at a Sacramento-area McDonald’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sparks will start college at American River College in the fall and he said he hopes to start his own clothing line one day. He said he supports efforts to increase the minimum wage because having more money in his pocket will help him pay for books, art supplies and food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother is struggling, and the reason I want to do better for myself is because I don’t want to have to depend on her,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sparks said he would like to get a raise of about $2 per hour so he could earn $20,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could pay more bills and not depend on others,” he said. “It would make it easier to live and to live comfortably.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bernice Yeung is a journalist for \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, introduced a \u003ca href=\"http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:S.2252:\" target=\"_blank\">similar bill\u003c/a> in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although California’s minimum wage is higher than the federal standard at $8 per hour, state labor advocates said wage improvements still need to be made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Eight dollars an hour is still not enough to support a family, and it's not even enough to support an individual who has hopes of a decent life,\" said Jacob Hay of Good Jobs LA, a group that advocates for workers’ rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents for the federal increase said the current minimum wage amounts to earnings of about $15,000 a year for a full-time worker, and because wages have not been tied to inflation, the real purchasing power of minimum wage has fallen to $6.77 per hour in the past three years. In California, the yearly paycheck for minimum wage employees who work 40 hours a week is about $16,600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But business organizations oppose proposals that increase the minimum wage because they said it could reduce the number of jobs that are available in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mandatory wage increases hurt not only small businesses, but their employees as well,” the National Federation of Independent Business states on its \u003ca href=\"http://www.nfib.com/advocacy/item/cmsid/240\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a>. “Big corporations do not have to absorb the cost because most minimum-wage jobs are offered by small businesses. It has not been proven to reduce poverty or narrow the income gap and puts a stranglehold on America's top job creators: small businesses. The overwhelming majority of economists continue to affirm the job-killing nature of mandatory wage increases: mandatory minimum-wage increases end up reducing employment levels for those people with the lowest skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.nelp.org/page/-/rtmw/NELP-Big-Business-Corporate-Profits-Minimum-Wage.pdf?nocdn=1\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> released last week by the National Employment Law Project, an employee rights advocacy organization, said most low-wage workers are, in fact, employees of corporations that are in a “strong financial position,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the low-wage employers that would be disproportionately affected by an increase in the minimum wage are in a strong financial position and can afford the cost of a higher minimum wage,” the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policy discussions about raising the minimum wage long have been a battle of conflicting research over its true economic effects, said Jeannette Wicks-Lim, an assistant research professor at the University of Massachusetts’ Political Economy Research Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The main reason why people are concerned about the impact on minimum wage of low-wage workers is over whether it will jeopardize business opportunities,” she said. “There is a ton of research on this question, and the debate has been going on back and forth decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicks-Lim said the recent research shows\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>minimum wage laws enacted in the past “have not had a negative impact on workers’ job opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Increases to minimum wage have not produced the loss of jobs in the ways that opponents of these types of proposals predict,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the federal bill, there also are efforts to increase the minimum wage in San Jose, where voters will consider a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/clerk/minwage/minimum_wage.asp\" target=\"_blank\">ballot initiative\u003c/a> in November that would give minimum wage workers a raise to $10 per hour. 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But it gives him a sense of moving on up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a psychological boost,\" said Frias, who is a 34-year-old usher at a movie theater and a security guard for a crowd control firm. \"It means that I'll have more money in my wallet to pay my bills and money to spend in the city to help the economy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/UNHA9aSGD1s\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Franciscans passed a proposition in 2003 that \u003ca href=\"http://sfgsa.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=1476\">requires the city to increase the minimum wage\u003c/a> each year, using a formula tied to inflation and the cost of living. 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