gotta love measure D

http://economichardship.org/the-offline-wage-wars-of-silicon-valley/
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" the push for Measure D — the San Jose ballot initiative that would mandate the city’s 70,000 minimum wage workers to get a 25 percent raise from $8 to $10 an hour, the single largest minimum-wage jump in the nation’s history. "

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"This legislative fight was hatched in a perfect storm. It was happening post-recession, in the wake of open global panic about the economy. It was happening during mind-boggling tuition hikes — SJSU has raised its tuition by 141 percent since California’s last minimum wage increase in 2008. It was happening when gas prices often surpassed $4 a gallon. "


"The campaign kicked off just as thousands of angry Americans, many of them young, descended on Wall Street and hundreds of satellite cities, including San Jose."

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"The San Jose campaign came at the heels of minimum wage battles being fought across the country, from New York to New Mexico to the congressional floor."


" Democrats in the Senate had, by this time, introduced and repeatedly called for the passage of the Fair Minimum Wage Act, which would raise the federal minimum to $10.10."


 " San Jose, ..the funneling of creative, educated young people and venture capital dollars to a city, which in turn gives birth to a service industry to support this class
, is both the modern emblem of urban success and a recipe for a cavernous wealth gap."


"San Jose has long been a tech mainstay that other start-up-friendly cities across the country, like Omaha and Atlanta, hope to emulate. But could it also be a model for young, urban activists fueled by the very inequality their city’s wealth has created?"

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