Wage Law

California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez (D-Los Angeles) said in an interview today that the Democratic agenda in California will focus on four issues in 2006: universal healthcare for children; raising the state's minimum wage by a $1 to $7.75; investing in the state's roads, levees, and transportation networks; and universal preschool.

As we discussed earlier, the governor vetoed the bill passed earlier this year that would have raised the minimum wage. In addition to continued Democratic interest, there is a ballot initiative circulating which would put the minimum wage issue on the November 2006 ballot.