Minimum wages are on the rise. But even as California cities push them higher, many workers still can’t keep up with high costs

As new minimum wages take effect, cities keep raising the bar - Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group

By Mark Kreidler Contributing Writer LOS ANGELES — The flip of the calendar to July brought a scrap of relief to workers scattered from California to New York, as a series of minimum wage adjustments kicked in. Alaska, Oregon and the District of Columbia all made broad-scale adjustments — in Alaska’s case, by $1 an hour — that will increase the earnings of more than 361,000 workers by roughly $221 million, according to research by the Washington…

Minimum wages are on the rise. But even as California cities push them higher, many workers still can’t keep up with high costs

Despite the fact that the Golden State has one of the highest minimum wages in the country, many local cities have set minimums that exceed the state's.