Berkeley’s minimum wage rose to $12.53 an hour on Oct. 1, a brief stopover on its way to $15. By the fall of 2018, the city’s starter wage will have risen 67% in just five years. While the city’s council members quibbled over how quickly the wage should rise to $15, the city’s small businesses had […]
Michael Saltsman
Posted inOpinion
Op-ed: Berkeley Labor Commission’s $19 nightmare
When President Obama proposed in 2013 to raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour, one retort designed to call attention to his flawed economic logic went like this: “If $9 is so great, why not $19?” Less than three years later, the Labor Commission in Berkeley has taken this rhetorical device to heart […]
