California voters have rejected Prop 32, which would have raised the state's minimum wage from $16 to $18.

California voters have rejected Prop 32, which would have raised the state’s minimum wage from $16 to $18.

With 100% of the ballots tallied, the measure was rejected by a 0.8% margin (50.8 - 49.2), according to the California Secretary of State’s office. The total vote difference for the proposition was 234,146.

  • would_be_appreciated@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    It was a really bad year for California props, people just took a hard right turn.

    No to: raise the minimum wage, provide housing, abolish slavery

    Yes to: harsher sentencing and some weird vendetta a rich guy has against an AIDS nonprofit

    Motherfuckers complain about homeless population nonstop and then refuse to pass anything to fix it.