Some minimum-wage workers in the Bay Area lose thousands of dollars every year because employers don’t pay what the law requires. For many, language and cultural barriers stop them from knowing their rights.

Yanfen Li’s parents-in-law worked in San Francisco for about seven years, earning less than minimum wage, to prepare for Li and her family to join them from China. On Friday, she stood with a multilingual coalition at the 24th Street Mission BART Plaza to make sure other San Franciscans heard that minimum wage will rise in July to $18.67.

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Anna Leah comes to Local News Matters from over fifteen years in documentary film – including a docu-series examining the national reach of conspiratorial thinking, never-before-seen materials related to Jeffrey Epstein, and a history of currency. Currently, she is earning a master’s degree in feature writing, investigation, and data at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism (part of CUNY – the City University of New York). She focuses on building empathy with people who are often overlooked or oversimplified. More at annaleah.com.