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<p>The battle to raise the minimum wage to $15 is over&#8212;at least in California.</p><div>&nbsp;</div><div><span style="">Over March 28, California lawmakers reached a deal to raise the state minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022. This move signals the biggest advance yet in a campaign to increase pay for low-income workers.</span></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><span style="">The debate has long been reverberated in the Democratic presidential contest and in cities across the country. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator running for the Democratic nomination, has made a $15 federal minimum wage a central plank in his campaign. His opponent, Hillary Clinton, has called for a $12 federal minimum wage. Minimum wage is currently at $7.25 an hour.</span></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><span style="">Under the new deal in California, the wage, which was raised to $10 an hour on January 1, would increase incrementally to $15 over the next six years. Small businesses with fewer than 25 employees will have until 2023 to hit $15.</span></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><span style="">According to The New York Times, two factors make California&#8217;s plan such a pioneering step: the size of the increase and the size of the state. About 600,000 of California&#8217;s 1.6 million manufacturing workers earn less than $15 an hour&#8212;that&#8217;s by far the largest block of affected manufacturing workers. It&#8217;s also a key metric because it points to how the size of California&#8217;s increase reaches out to different employment sectors than a smaller increase would.</span></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><span style="">&#8220;This is a very big deal,&#8221; said Paul K. Sonn, the general counsel to the National Employment Law Project, a national research and advocacy group on wages. &#8220;It would mean a raise for one of every three workers in the state.&#8221;</span></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><span style="">The movement has gained traction in a dozen other cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. Last week, the major of Washington proposed raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2020.</span></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/28/us/california-nears-deal-to-adopt-a-15-state-minimum-wage.html?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=california-strikes-deal-to-hike-minimum-wage-to-15-4101" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="">Click here to read the original article.</a></div><div>&nbsp;</div>

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