Stephon Harris makes $16.35 an hour at the Rancho San Miguel Market, ringing customers up for pints of fresh salsas and masa. A few hundred feet away, at a Jack in the Box drive-through, workers are making about $4 more an hour thanks to California’s mandatory $20 minimum wage for fast-food employees that kicked in last month. "I would like to make that," Harris, 21, said as he assisted customers. He is among California's low-wage workers who are left out of sector-specific minimum wages... Read this story
