The city continue to see 25,000 new jobs even if the effect of the new minimum wage comes into effect. We looked into industry by industry and its a little less clear. The projections we looked at arrest unanimous are unanimous like the Restaurant Industry which will continue to grow even with the minimum wage impact. The personal services are a little less clear, some are projecting healthy growth and some are not. The overall story about the employment effect the citys economy will improve. The number of the jobs in the city will still be less than the city will expect to have with natural growth over the last 5 years. The only point of caution we would mention is that none of the projections we have looked at are anticipating a recession in the next 5 years. We may have a recession where the city will naturally lose jobs while the city is raising the minimum wage. The city may consider to add flexibility to this proposal to the economic event. That concludes my presentation. Im happ
Francisco labor council. I am actually quite proud here to stand here before you. The labor council, other unions and many other Community Organizations work hard for this calling us the coalition for the fair campaign, we got in the streets and negotiated with the mayor and with everybodys help we have come up with one of the most exciting minimum wage initiatives the country has ever seen. Many of us were there 10 years ago and now we are awe fully proud. I just want to caution you about ted eagans good report that in a week uc berkeley is going to produce another report, like the glass is half full and half empty where ted eagan said that 60,000 workers are going to benefit from this. We understand that over 100,000 workers from uc berkeley will benefit where ted eagan says the city will flow by the dollars. Uc says 10s if not hundreds of millions of dollars will benefit over time. This is really important for the city and when supervisors campos talks about comparison to uganda, it
And thrive in our diverse city. We are really excited about this minimum wage measure as well as the commitment from supervisors and Mayors Office to ensure that this minimum wage is adequately enforced and we look forward to november leading the way to the highest minimum wage in the country. Thank you. Supervisor jane kim thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. Steve fields and director of nonprofit provider and speaking on behalf of the Human Services network, the coalition of 100 Nonprofit Health and Human Services provider. We are really pleased to see this measure moving forward. I want to especially acknowledge that this city, this jurisdiction maybe the first jurisdiction in the country that from the beginning acknowledged the necessity to speak to the nonprofit partners in developing a fair and equitable minimum wage measure. And its typical of San Francisco that it steps for it in all of these issues. We appreciated being in the conversation. We also appreciated the tone of t
4 hurricane barrelled toward the gulf coast, the strongest storm to hit louisiana with unsurvive able storm surges. Were going to talk to the mayor in the eye of the storm. Lets go outfront. Good evening. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, the breaking news. Investigators about to hold a News Conference on the shooting of 29 jacob blake. Blake was shot in the back by police in kenosha, wisconsin, three of his children just feet away in the backseat of the car. Investigators have a lot of questions to answer tonight. It has been three days since that shooting. Still we dont know the basic facts of what lead to jacob blakes shooting. Meantime, wisconsins governor doubling the number of National Guard members on the streets dont. That is now going to be 500 after what we saw last night which was violent protests and mayhem, local officials moving the curfew up, two people shot and killed last night, a third seriously wounded. We have obtained video of that shooting, and warning, it is dis
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