BOOSTING STATE'S MINIMUM WAGE ARNOLD SIGNS BILL TO UP BASE PAY.Byline: GREGORY J. WILCOX Staff Writer Using a South Los Angeles South Los Angeles is the official name for a large geographic and cultural area lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California. The area was formerly called South Central Los Angeles, and is still sometimes called South Central. mercado For the hispanic surname "Mercado", please see de Mercado. Mercado first originated in Spain. In English it means 'market'. Is the last name of the 'Great' Fifa Soccer player Eswold. as a backdrop, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈaloɪ̯s ˈʃvaɐ̯ʦənˌʔɛɡɐ] on Tuesday signed legislation boosting the state's minimum wage to $8 an hour, the highest in the nation and thus padding Bits or characters that fill up unused portions of a data structure, such as a field, packet or frame. Typically, padding is done at the end of the structure to fill it up with data, with the padding usually consisting of 1 bits, blank characters or null characters. See null and bit stuffing. the paychecks of nearly 1 million workers. The $1.25 increase, equal to 18.5 percent, will be implemented in two phases; 75 cents on Jan. 1 and 50 cents the following Jan. 1. It will result in increasing the wages of California's minimum wage work force by $2.5 billion, the Governor's Office said. The governor held the signing ceremony A signing ceremony is a ceremony in which a bill passed by a legislature is signed (approved) by an executive, thus becoming a law. Modern-day signing ceremonies are derived from ceremonies that occurred when the British monarch gave Royal Assent to acts of Parliament. at Mercado La Paloma a few miles from downtown. ``Today is the perfect day to sign this bill. We have a great author, a great Assembly leader and a great economy,'' Schwarzenegger said, referring to the bipartisan effort that resulted in the first minimum-wage increase since 2002. The bill was authored by Assemblywoman as·sem·bly·wom·an n. A woman who is a member of a legislative assembly. Noun 1. assemblywoman - a woman assemblyman representative - a person who represents others Sally Lieber, D-San Jose, and backed by Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles. Lieber agreed that the new wage law demonstrates that California legislators can work together for a good cause. ``There is not one of us in California that doesn't depend on the lowest income workers in the state,'' she said. The governor noted that since he took office the state's economy has added about 600,000 jobs, the unemployment rate is less than 5 percent and state revenues have increased by about $20 billion. ``The California economy is a raging rag·ing adj. 1. Very active and unpredicatable; volatile: a raging debate; a raging fire. 2. Remarkable; extraordinary: a raging hit on prime-time TV. , roaring ROARING. A disease among horses occasioned by the circumstance of the neck of the windpipe being too narrow for accelerated respiration; the disorder is frequently produced by sore throat or other topical inflammation. 2. success and now is the time to make sure that everyone is getting to share in this prosperity,'' Schwarzenegger said. Lucio Aguilar is one of those workers. He helps out in the kitchen and is a food runner at Chichen Itza Chi·chén It·zá An ancient Mayan city of central Yucatán in Mexico. It was founded c. a.d. 514 and abandoned in 1194. There are extensive well-preserved ruins on the site. Catering, a restaurant in the mercado, and he would have preferred to have seen the overall increase include an additional 25 cents. Aguilar currently earns $7.50 an hour and already has plans for the money that will come in the second phase of the increase if he has not improved his financial lot by then. ``It will be good to have extra money to buy clothes,'' he said after the bill-signing ceremony. Last year the governor said he would have signed a $1 increase in the wage level but the bill presented to him included an indexing provision that could have automatically triggered subsequent increases. An earlier version of the bill did contain an index provision, prompting the Coalition for California Jobs to put it at the top of its 2006 job-killer list. Vincent Sollitto, spokesman for the California Chamber of Commerce, which is a coalition member, said that the chamber is glad the governor held firm on his indexing stance and that the provision was trimmed. ``I think the governor has it exactly right,'' he said of the version signed on Tuesday. Jack Kyser, chief economist The Chief Economist is a single position job class having primary responsibility for the development, coordination, and production of economic and financial analysis. It is distinguished from the other economist positions by the broader scope of responsibility encompassing the at the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Economic Development Corp., said the new law will have a minimum impact on businesses. It could bring some higher prices at businesses like restaurants but the wage boost won't bring big job losses. ``Everyone acts like the fate of the free world rests on not increasing the minimum wage, but if you look at the statistics, it's a small percentage of the people,'' he said. ``And a lot of people who work at the minimum wage are not heads of households.'' greg.wilcox(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3743 Minumum Facts Here is a look at the makeup of California's minimum-wage work force. More than 1 million Californians earned the minimum wage in 2004. Minimum-wage workers made up 7 percent of the 14.8 million wage and salary workers. Nearly 2.1 million California workers earned $7.75 or less per hour. 54 percent of minimum-wage workers were women. 53 percent were Hispanic, compared with 31 percent of all wage and salary workers. Young workers were more likely to earn minimum wage than other age groups. Seventeen percent of California workers age 16 to 24 earned $6.75 per hour or less, compared with just 5 percent of all workers age 25 to 54. Source: United States Census Bureau The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census as defined in Title ) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. CAPTION(S): 2 photos, box Photo: (1 -- color) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is joined by Assemblywoman Sally Lieber and Speaker Fabian Nunez for the signing of the minimum-wage bill Tuesday at a small table outside a restaurant in the Mercado La Paloma in South Los Angeles. (2 -- color) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger arrives for the bill-signing. John McCoy/Staff Photographer Box: Minumum Facts (see text) |
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