MR. THOMAS GOES TO THE CAPITOL

Advocating for a Better Minimum Wage and Housing

On April 12, 2023, UWBA Public Policy Director, TaShon Thomas, was present at a hearing in Sacramento to testify in support of the California Workforce Development Board: minimum wage and housing bill (SB 352). If passed, SB 352 would require the CA Workforce Development Board to “examine housing costs by county, regionally, and in the state and create a formula to ascertain how much a household with at least one full-time minimum wage worker must earn to reasonably afford a decent standard of living, including appropriate housing and basic expenses…”