In 2004, women's life expectancy exceeded men's life expectancy by 5.2 years, the smallest gender gap in life expectancy since 1946. Life expectancy for whites was five years greater than that of blacks. Life expectancy for black and white men and women was as follows: Black male: 69.8 years.
Electronic Arts in Redwood City is pictured Dec. 8. 2015. Redwood City is considering increasing its local minimum wage to $15 an hour beginning January 2019. Electronic Arts is the cityâs second-largest employer with 2,367 employees, next to Oracle, which employs 6,781 workers, according to the city. (Bay Area News Group file)
Los Angeles may soon require the highest minimum wage in America. In the coming weeks, three city council members plan to introduce a motion to raise the minimum wage to $15.37 an hour for the city's hotel workers -- roughly double the California minimum of $8 an hour and the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour.