D. One in five Americans live in California and New York. California's plan would raise the statewide minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022. The New York plan would raise the minimum wage to $15 in New York City in 2018 and its suburbs in 2021. The rest of the state would have a minimum wage of $12.50 an hour.

Q: Before state lawmakers voted to raise wages to $15 an hour, some cities passed measures to raise the minimum wage locally. Which of these cities was the first to vote for a $15 minimum wage?

A. Los Angeles

B. San Francisco

C. Seattle

D. Washington, D.C.

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C. Seattle passed a city ordinance in 2014 to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2021. San Francisco and Los Angeles passed measures last year. A court recently removed a $15 wage proposal from the ballot in Washington, D.C.

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Q: A $15-an-hour minimum wage is LEAST favored by which group of voters?

A. Democrats

B. Republicans

C. Independents

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B. Overall, 59% of Americans support a $15 minimum wage, but just 32% of Republicans do, according to a nonpartisan research group. Among independents, 58% support it and 84 percent of Democrats back the $15 an hour wage.

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Q: While lawmakers in California and New York voted to raise the minimum wage, legislators voted to prevent cities from raising minimum wages in which state?

A. Alabama

B. Illinois

C. Massachusetts

D. New Jersey

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A. Alabama legislators passed a law this year to prevent the city of Birmingham’s attempt at raising its minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, above the state minimum of $7.25.

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