A plan to raise California's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022 passed both houses of the state legislature Thursday, putting the state on track to become the first in the nation to commit to such a large pay hike for the working poor.
The measure, incorporating a deal Gov. Jerry Brown reached with labor leaders and progressive Democrats in the Legislature, was approved in the state senate on Thursday afternoon after winning approval earlier in the day in the assembly, and now goes to Brown for his signature.
"If you work full time, your family shouldn't live in poverty," Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, a Southern California Democrat, said in support of the bill to raise the state's minimum wage from its current level of $10 per hour.
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