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 is the largest city in Southern California to take on the issue of how to help low-wage hotel workers living in an expensive urban center. The city of Santa Monica already requires hotel operators to pay employees $15.37 per hour. Long Beach has a hotel living wage of $13.53 per hour. On a larger scale, Mayor Eric Garcetti wants to increase the minimum wage for all workers in Los Angeles to $13.25 per hour by 2017.