GETTING AHEAD
WITH TAVIS SMILEY
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM
Getting Ahead focuses on the reality being faced by both small business owners and employees. Small business owners such as Sal Bednarz, owner of Actual Café, who is an outspoken supporter of increasing the minimum wage but now worries that his very slim profit margin may not be sustainable; Asiya Jabaar, director of a small state accredited day care center, who is reducing her full time staff to one part-time worker and is concerned that as a teacher she is being priced out of keeping her day care center open; Oakland’s Chinatown merchants who express concern that they cannot raise their prices to keep pace with paying mandated salary increases; Nina Cooper of Nina Cooper Designs who is convinced that a possible $19 an hour minimum wage in Berkeley will destroy small businesses; and Sam Mogannan, who owns Bi-Rite Markets and Catering and has over 300 employees who knows that he can only raise his prices so high before he looses customers.
