Links and history of the living wage in Santa Monica, including the feasibility study by Robert Pollin.
http://pen.ci.santa-monica.ca.us/cityclerk/council/agendas/2001/s2001032708-C.htm
http://pen.ci.santa-monica.ca.us/cityclerk/council/lw_links.htm
http://pen3.ci.santa-monica.ca.us:8765/query.html?qt=living%20wage&col=city%20municode%20bddocs
http://www.umass.edu/economics/Staff/pollin.html
Peter Kosenko
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 18:12:05 -0400
>----- Original Message -----
>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
>
>