AMY GOODMAN: Juan, this is quite a remarkable victory in both New York and California around the minimum wage.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Yes. The advocates are calling it, actually, the largest—one of the largest pay raises for American workers in the history of the country. About 5 million people are going to see—minimum-wage workers—are going to see their wages increase substantially over the next few years. And it’s remarkable that only about three years ago this movement started with a single strike of a bunch of McDonald’s workers in New York City, and it has spread across the country. And it’s going to continue to spread, because there’s too many Americans who cannot live on the federal minimum wage or on some higher state minimum wages in some areas. So this is a remarkable movement that’s also going to boost the economy, because all of these low-wage workers are going to immediately spend that money. And so, it’s remarkable that a movement has been able to get this far so quickly.

AMY GOODMAN: And, of course, we’ll continue to cover it, as this wave of both protest and response, with real laws, sweeps the country.