California Prop 32 Explained | 2024 Election

Fast food and health care workers are getting minimum wage hikes. Voters can increase it for all workers from $16 to $18 an hour. CalMatters reporter Jeanne Kuang explains Prop. 32 in a minute.

[genikadomond]

They really just need to lower the cost or living because a one dollar increase isn’t going to make a difference. Lets be real

[TracyAllenVideos]

In the 80s, I earned less than $6 an hour but my rent was only $200 a month.

Basically, with only $6 an hour, at 40 hours a week, I could almost (taxes) pay my rent with one week’s pay.

It takes people that make $20 an hour, about 2.5 weeks to earn enough money for rent @ $2000 a month.

And I think it’s a bigger travesty when there are places requiring that you make 3Xs the monthly rent in order to get a roof over your head 😬

These people are not making $6000 a month!

If housing were lower, that would solve the majority of the problems 🤷🏽‍♀️

Raising minimum wages only makes everything else go up and people still can’t afford to have just one job and a place to call home!

It’s just pitiful. I feel for people either way😔

[amyhuffman]

I want to vote yes. We need to vote yes. But then, as stated in the video, costs will go up as well. How/when does it even out so that people can actually afford to live without autocorrecting on the other end?

[danp]

We've learned a lot during covid that all of the "essential worker's" are minimum wage employees. Imagine if every minimum wage worker went on strike for 3 days. Do you know how many businesses we rely on every day would be closed? Gas stations, retail stores, convenience stores, some grocery stores.

[alexquinnelly]

This is a hard NO. In 2021, I worked at a trendy fast-food restaurant for $15 per hour for 40 hours a week with full benefits. The following year, I worked up to a rise of $16 per hour. When the minimum wage was raised, I worked 40 hours, now 20 or less weekly, for $20 per hour, taking away my benefits, including health care, which I am now paying for, along with rent and other bills.

[edgarmarquez]

Yea okay when will it stop $50 dollars an hour my rent is going to hit $8000 dollars a month not going to fall for it

[fatandsassy]

NO or there will be even FEWER jobs and hours. Jumping $3 immediately will ruin CA economy!

[laclikachico]

It’s long overdue our wages haven’t been keeping up with inflation historically when minimum wages go up the higher wages go up as well so I’ll vote yes

[HuckleisMyHoney]

Have people learned nothing from the fast food minimum wage increase??

[aaronhughson]

Within the current economic environment a minimum wage hike cannot be supported. The ancillary cost of goods, especially energy makes any wage increase less effective. It will result in higher cost, lower total income, and increased tax revenues to a state that can’t budget properly.

[tru]

and Self-checkout has only made things more expensive due to higher theft rates (3.5%) compared to cashiers (under 1%).

[team-isnf]

Many states have a $7 and change minimum wage. Companies will just stop hiring CA workers. I work at a mortgage company and they already started doing this in 2024. Since remote work is really popular these days. The job market in CA is just going to get worse.

[Vamanos]

1:15 Look at seattle, they raised Wages to 26 for ppl in food delivery and their hours got cut. Hourly rates went up, their steady stream of annual and monthly income went DOWN.
So cut the crap.

[DeathToMayo]

We know for a fact that minimum wage has very little to do with inflation. Don't complain that the people making the very least might do a little better. Get upset that the wealthiest are doing better than ever while the rest of us struggle.

[adventuresofnategabeandzoe]

It’s an employer’s responsibility to pay you what you contribute to the company. A government mandated minimum wage tries to apply a one size fits all approach, when all businesses are different

[juanitodeguzman]

All the prices are getting higher no matter what. Now a days they need to make balance on this prop 32 Yes are good for those start up worker to get their life improve as necessities. For this they have to amend prop 32 and to not, .. or let the State not to increase ... that is why they need to amend on this prop 32 not to increase, the best way get the money from billionaires on this case. and pass to congress with this exception...everything now are digital ( + and - ) erase or no🙂

[xkilwattx]

This is just an archaic proposition. Automation is ruining jobs and a minimum wage hike will further fuel that.

[-old-Forthischet]

I'm all for high wages, but workers need to earn it, not demand it.

High wages will eventually lead to more inflation. There's no way around it.

[jamessoares]

Damn if you do damn if you don’t on this one you raise the minimum wage everything goes up you still will struggle keep things the way they are. You still are struggling. Doesn’t matter what you do on this one I put no because it will stabilize the cost-of-living everything

[nolanx]

AMR and other EMS agency’s pay is on par with McDonalds and In n out. This is bologna, raising every dollar for the sake of keeping things fair is what will drive Cali further away from
The rest of the 49 states.