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California’s minimum wage is $6.75 an hour.  Although our cost of living is sky-high, we have the lowest minimum wage of any state on the West Coast. Our minimum wage is not enough to allow a working family to afford basics like housing and healthcare.

After vetoing minimum wage increases for two years in a row, Governor Schwarzenegger now says he supports raising the wage this year, but refuses to include annual cost-of-living adjustments.  

Low-wage workers should not have to wait for an election year for an increase in the minimum wage. Please urge Governor Schwarzenegger to increase the minimum wage and index it to the cost of living.