CALIFORNIA: California Governor Jerry Brown’s top fiscal adviser opposes a bill raising the state’s minimum wage to $11 next year, which would be the nation’s top rate, saying it would stunt the growth of the world’s eighth-largest economy.
Raising the wage floor $1 above the level that Brown approved in 2013 would cost the state almost $400 million this fiscal year in higher wages paid to in home health care workers, seasonal park employees and other state staff making minimum wage, according to an analysis by Brown’s Finance Department.
Brown, a 77-year-old Democrat, in 2013 cited “moral responsibility” in raising the lowest wage to $10 effective in 2016.
