California reparations for Black community aims to 'buy their vote': Larry Elder
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California's reparations task force is calling on lawmakers to raise the state's minimum wage, already the nation's second highest at $15.50, to a "living wage" as part of a broader set of proposals purportedly meant for the Golden State to make amends for slavery and racism.
The task force, created by state legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020, formally approved last weekend its final recommendations to the California Legislature, which will decide whether to enact the measures and send them to the governor's desk to be signed into law.
The recommendations include several economic proposals meant to address "stolen labor" and "hindered opportunity" that contributed to alleged systemic racist against Black Californians. One such proposal is to raise the state's minimum wage.
"The task force recommends that the legislature raise the minimum wage to a living wage," the committee writes in the final report outlining its proposals. "The minimum wage should also be automatically adjusted on a regular basis to adjust for increases to the cost of living (including inflation)."
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