I just left Martin Luther King, Jr. Park where an Angeleno named Joseph Galloway spoke passionately about his struggles to make ends meet despite working full-time as a delivery driver — a job he took after being forced to leave college to support his family after the death of his father. Stories like his are the reasons why today I’m proposing to raise the minimum wage in LA.
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My plan would raise the minimum wage in LA to a level where working people could lift themselves out of poverty. This will help us all. 1 million Angelenos live in poverty — this holds our entire economy back. Minimum wage earners pump their salaries back into our economy.
I’m so proud that our coalition includes business leaders like Eli Broad and labor leaders like Maria Elena Durazo — and even President Obama gave us a shout out this weekend. But we need the people of LA to speak out.
