California to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour

Adolfo Madrigal, Reporter

The Governor of California, Jerry Brown, has signed legislation on Monday April 4,2016 that, in his words, “is part of living in a moral community.”

There’s also another reason why Governor Brown has signed the minimum wage raise in the state of California:  because a lot of amounts of people were protesting.

There’s a catch with everything, of course. The minimum wage isn’t jumping to $15 right away. Every year the minimum wage is going to gradually go up 50 cents a year so by the year of 2022 it will reach $15.    

By next year the minimum wage is going be $10.50 and it’s going up by every year until 2022. Now California is going to have the highest minimum wage in the USA, so that means maybe a lot of people out of the state is going to move over here and try to get a job here to get paid $15 an hour. Maybe it might stay like that for a while but we don’t know until it’s the year 2022 and it could go higher or it just might stay right there where it’s good for everybody.