Santa Monica, California—Business groups from across the country poured nearly $1.5 million into a war chest to oppose Santa Monica’s living wage law, resulting on November 5 in a temporary setback for the national movement to lift the working poor out of poverty. Despite the [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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