Businesses Find a Bulwark Against Minimum Wage Hikes
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As minimum wage increases sweep across cities from Seattle to Washington, D.C., business have finally found a place from which they can push back: San Diego.
In mid-August, the city council overrode a mayoral veto and raised San Diego’s minimum wage to $11.50, to be phased in over three years. But on Monday local lawmakers put the pay increase on hold after business opponents gathered enough signatures to put the issue before voters—in 2016.