TRIVIA GAME
How well do you know minimum wage?
Cut out the cards below to create a trivia deck.
Q. Los Angeles is home to 3.8
million people. How many
residents are currently living
below the poverty level?
A. 1,000,000 Angelenos.
Source: Los Angeles' Proposed City Minimum
Wage Law: A prospective Impact Study
Q. What percentage of affected
workers are people of color?
A. 83% of affected workers.
Source: Los Angeles' Proposed City Minimum
Wage Law: A prospective Impact Study
Q. If L.A.’s poor were their
own city, how would it
compare to other US cities?
A. It would be the 10th largest
in America and the third
largest in California.
Q. How many workers
would get a raise under
Mayor Garcetti’s proposal?
A. 567,000 workers.
Source: Los Angeles' Proposed City Minimum
Wage Law: A prospective Impact Study
Q. What is the
Consumer Price Index?
A. The Consumer Price Index (CPI)
is a measure of the average change
over time in the prices paid by urban
consumers for a market basket of
consumer goods and services.
A. Restaurant prices are expected
to increase by 4.1 percent by the
time the law is fully implemented.
A $10 meal would increase by 41
cents, to a total of $10.41.
Source: Los Angeles' Proposed City Minimum
Wage Law: A prospective Impact Study
Q. What is the average yearly
salary of a minimum wage
earner in Los Angeles?
A. $16,000 per year.
Source: US Department of Labor
Q. Under Mayor Eric Garcetti’s
proposal, what will the
minimum wage be in 2016?
A. $11.75 per hour.
Source: Los Angeles' Proposed City Minimum
Wage Law: A prospective Impact Study
Q. What percentage of workers
currently earning less than $13.25
are in their twenties or older?
Q. By the time the law is fully
implemented, what will be the
average change in price for a $10
meal at a restaurant?
Q. What percentage of the lowest
20% of income earners in Los
Angeles have a rent burden over
50%?
A. Between 2009 and 2011, 78% of
the lowest 20% of income earners in
Los Angeles dedicated at least half
of their income to their rent.
Source: UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate
Q. What percentage of workers
currently earning less than
$13.25 have at least some
college experience?
A. 97% workers are 20 or older.
A. 46% of low wage
workers have at least some
college experience.
Source: Los Angeles' Proposed City Minimum
Wage Law: A prospective Impact Study
Source: Los Angeles' Proposed City Minimum
Wage Law: A prospective Impact Study
Q. In a recent UCLA study of US cities
with the most unaffordable rental
markets, where did Los Angeles rank?
A. Los Angeles was #1 on the list of
the most unaffordable rental market in
the country in terms of overall rent
burden (the percentage of your income
that goes towards paying rent).
Source: UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate