Voters Reject $18 Minimum Wage Proposal, First Pay Hike to Fail on a Ballot Since 1996.

California voters have turned down a proposal to raise the state’s minimum wage to $18 per hour in a narrow vote. This marks the first failure of a minimum wage hike initiative in the United States in nearly three decades. The final results, delayed by two weeks of counting due to close margins, showed 49.2 […]