California voters have rejected Prop 32, which would have raised the state’s minimum wage from $16 to $18.
With 100% of the ballots tallied, the measure was rejected by a 0.8% margin (50.8 - 49.2), according to the California Secretary of State’s office. The total vote difference for the proposition was 234,146.
… Why?
It’s half the low that cost of living is tied to it, and half that they don’t want people who work “less hard” to make as much money as they do.