Commentary: A recent report found that more than 2/3s of state employees in CA are given sub-living wages and can’t afford to raise a family. Despite their important work keeping the state functioning, some rely on a second job or public assistance
is doing to people in California – even state employees, whose jobs make the state function everyday.
But in far too many cases today, these are not jobs that make it possible for workers to support themselves and their families. To an alarming degree, the state is helping to create the very problems Californians expect it to address by paying wages so low that many workers have to rely on public assistance just to get by.
My mom still works a graveyard shift. My dad needs help with medical bills. I can’t help them like I wanted to. Over the last decade, the median inflation-adjusted pay for state employees has actually fallen by about 1%. Over the same time period, the state budget has soared by an inflation-adjusted 69%.
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