Brandon Bartlett is an English senior and Mustang News conservative columnist. These views do not reflect the editorial coverage of Mustang News. As Los Angeles announces its new $15 minimum wage for its unincorporated areas, a shout of victory and pride rings out…
Cal Poly Democrats and Republicans engage in debate
Students seated themselves along a spectrum of how they identified politically. No one person’s attitude completely reflected that of the political party they affiliated with or all the members of each club.
California minimum wage to increase
California’s minimum wage will increase to $10 an hour by 2016. Earlier this month, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation to raise it to $9 an hour by July 2014 and complete the increase by January 2016.
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Minimum wage blatently ignores non-monetary benefits of work
The minimum wage sparks a great deal of controversy because it is an emotion-laden topic. Such emotion is quite understandable as any talk on minimum wage naturally involves a discussion about poor people. And curiously, the prosperous and the well-positioned in our society, among them most college students, seem to never tire of amusing and exasperating themselves at dinner table debates over what to do or what not to do with the poor.