California Governor’s Fiscal Adviser Opposes $11 Minimum Wage
Governor Jerry Brown's Finance Department now opposes a measure that Democrats and union allies support.
Jerry Brown, governor of California, speaks during the annual Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Wednesday, April 29, 2015.
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California Governor Jerry Brown’s top fiscal adviser opposes a bill raising the state’s minimum wage to $11 next year, which would be the nation’s top rate, saying it would stunt the growth of the world’s eighth-largest economy.
Raising the wage floor $1 above the level that Brown approved in 2013 would cost the state almost $400 million this fiscal year in higher wages paid to in-home health care workers, seasonal park employees and other state staff making minimum wage, according to an analysis by Brown’s Finance Department.