Episode 562: A Mall Divided
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Publisher: NPR Planet Money
Duration: 13:23
Summary from website: The Westfield Valley Fair Mall in California is like any other mall, except for one thing: Half of it is in the city of San Jose, and the other half is in the city of Santa Clara. The boundary line runs right through the mall.
For a long time, this didn’t matter. But in 2012, one city — San Jose — raised its minimum wage from $8 an hour to $10 an hour. This change created two economic worlds within a single, large building. Employees doing more or less the same work, just steps away from each other, started making different wages.
Link: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/04/06/473128291/episode-562-a-mall-divided