Voters approved proposals to tax the rich, build worker power, and make housing and education more affordable.
a state constitutional amendment to increase the minimum wage to at least $12 an hour by 2024 and eliminate a loophole that has allowed companies offering health benefits to pay their workers less than the state minimum. Greedy employers have taken advantage of this two-tier system by paying lower wages while offering only shoddy insurance that many workers couldn’t even afford.
Andy Shallal, the owner of nine Busboys and Poets restaurants in the DC area, applauded the victory. “I have respect for my fellow restaurateurs but I really believe they are on the wrong side of history on this one,” Shallal wrote in a . Phasing out the tipped wage, Shallal believe, “will bring us one step closer to being a more equitable society.”After successfully passing rent control measures in 2020, voters in Portland, Maine voted in a new slate of tenant protections. Question C — approved by 55 percent of city residents — strengthens protections for tenants by ensuring they receive at least 90 days notice for lease terminations and rent increases.
In California, San Francisco voters approved Proposition M — a groundbreaking “empty homes tax” to fund affordable housing. By taxing units that are vacant for the majority of the year, the city will generate tens of millions in annual revenue to invest in housing stock acquisition and rental subsidies for elderly and low-income residents.
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