SACRAMENTO – Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) announced this week that he introduced Senate Bill 418, a bill to establish the California Prison Redevelopment Commission. The Commission would explore creative methods of repurposing closed prisons into new ways to serve communities throughout California.
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SACRAMENTO – Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) announced today that he has introduced Senate Bill 352, a bill to create a formula that calculates a real living wage that a worker must make to afford basic housing in their region. California has one of the nation’s highest minimum wages at $15.50 per hour, but suffers some of the nation’s highest poverty rates due to high living expenses, primarily driven by housing and childcare costs. According to United Way of California’s Real Cost Measure, 1 in 3 households in California – over 3.5 million families – do not earn enough to make ends meet.