Hueso and Young Disappoint Working Class Community

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It was with great disappointment that none of the city council representatives, in particular Ben Hueso and Tony Young, stood up and fought for the workers right to earn a living wage. Hueso and Young both represent low income districts, district 8 median income is $33,000, district 4 $40,000, home to many of the city's blue-collar workers, who will feel the impact by this pay reduction.

For the Hispanic communities which have a history of being on the low-end of the economic scale the path to equality and out of the vicious cycle of poverty and all the related issues associated with poverty is through economic growth, through a living wage. Council members Hueso and Young both effectively undercut this growth by imposing a 6% salary reduction that will only fuel the pangs of poverty.

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Hueso and Young Disappoint Working Class Community

Late Tuesday night the San Diego City Council decided that they had no alternative but to accept Mayor Jerry Sanders' proposal and impos...

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