The push for a $15 minimum wage

Everything you need to know, in four paragraphs

Minimum Wage protest
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Here's everything you need to know, in four paragraphs:

Labor activists just won a "landmark victory" in America's second-largest city, said Rory Carroll at The Guardian. The Los Angeles City Council voted 14 to 1 last week to raise the city's minimum wage from $9 to $15 per hour by 2020. Seattle and San Francisco have recently made similar moves, and will enact the $15 minimum wage by 2017 and 2018, respectively. Now, organizers of the L.A. wage campaign hope "to create a domino effect," bringing the fight for higher pay to cities around the country, including New York City, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.

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