California Gov Says Minimum Wage Is Good Politics, Questionable Policy

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California governor Jerry Brown said Monday that his state’s new minimum wage law makes more political sense than economic sense.

At a ceremony in Los Angeles commemorating the plan that will raise the state’s wage floor to $15 an hour, Brown slipped the politics reference into an argument about the morality of the minimum wage.

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