Minimum wage earners get raises in CA, WA and NJ

Three recent changes to state minimum wage laws are all on an upward trend. In September, California Governor Jerry Brown raised the state's minimum wage to $10/hr. With an all-Democratic legislative body, this might have been predictable. But voters are part of the trend: New Jersey's citizens voted this month to raise their state's minimum wage to $8.25/hr; and in the Washington state town of SeaTac, home of Seattle's airport, election day gave minimum wage workers a jump to $15/hr, the highest in the country.