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With new ordinance, Santa Fe becomes first city to tie minimum wage to rental costs

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With new ordinance, Santa Fe becomes first city to tie minimum wage to rental costs

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Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

SANTA FE — The Santa Fe City Council voted on Wednesday to raise its minimum wage from $15 an hour to $17.50 in 2027, eliciting praise from workers’ rights advocates

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the concept of someone working a 40hr week and not having money relax let alone pay their rent is literally foreign to me

it’s wild that people can work 80hr weeks and still barely scrape by

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