Santa Monica OKs 'Living Wage' Law

[Nathan Newman]

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From: "John Halle" <john.halle at yale.edu>
>You missed the crucial paragraph:
>The Dems have passed living wage ordinances but these have applied only to
>city goverment and city contractors, generally a small fraction of the
>wage pool.  In New Haven, for example, the existing ordinance passed by
>the Dems effects fewer than 200 workers many of whom were getting higher
>wages already.

Your right, that is an important difference.  I'm trying to figure out how,
since cities usually are barred by law from setting independent minimum wage
laws, which is why the whole living wage campaign across the country has
focused on those businesses with government contracts.

Is there an innovation here because of government property tax rebates to
the coastal neighborhoods or is it a symbolic law that they expect to have
overturned?

-- Nathan