SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — If anyone deserves an A+ this week, it's a group of San Jose State University students who turned their Social Action class project into a successful campaign to boost the local minimum wage.
On Monday their activism paid off, as 70,000 workers in San Jose enjoyed the nation's largest minimum-wage increase, a 25 percent raise from $8 to $10 an hour.
Their teacher, sociology professor Scott Myers-Lipton, said the achievement sends a message around the U.S. that "regular folks can change economic policy in this country."
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