Minimum Wage
Business & Economics
Fast food minimum wage’s predictable result: Fewer jobs, even higher prices to come
Wouldn’t it be nice if the government could make everyone richer simply by passing laws that increase our income? Unfortunately, our world doesn’t work that way. When government chooses winners, someone loses, and nothing illustrates this better than when lawmakers set wage floors, as they did with California’s $20 fast-food ...
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Restaurant Minimum Wage Hurting Businesses and the Workers Proponents Seek to Help
In August 2024, Gov. Gavin Newsom took an erroneous victory lap celebrating his policy to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers. The law, AB 1228, effective in April, raised the minimum wage to $20 per hour for fast food workers. Citing preliminary federal data, Newsom claimed California gained ...
California
$30 minimum wage would be an Olympian error for Los Angeles
The Los Angeles City Council is hiking the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers to $30 an hour. It will turn out to be a five-diamond mistake. The vote wasn’t even close. By a 12-3 margin, the Council decided to give a raise to workers they don’t employ and ...
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Rise Of The Machines
Some years ago, in 2018, when the minimum wage in California was $11 an hour for companies with 26 or more employees, a Pasadena burger joint hired a machine named Flippy to turn patties on the grill. “The world’s first autonomous kitchen assistant,” an “upgrade on a human line cook,” ...
Business & Economics
New study shows fast food minimum wage law already a disaster
Is it too soon to declare California’s $20-an-hour minimum wage for fast food workers a disaster? After all, it became law only four months ago. How much harm could have been done in such a narrow time frame? Short answer? Quite a bit. The results of a just-released business survey ...
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Fast food restaurants are raising prices after minimum wage hike
Their Pleasure: Legislators Cook Up A Law That Burns Fast Food
The new prices, which won’t go up in other states, depend on where the restaurant is. A double-double meal combo at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf now costs $13.63 including taxes; not far away in Daly City, the same meal is $2 cheaper, says the New York Post. In Irvine, near ...
Business & Economics
Read on the negative effects of raising minimum wage
$20 Minimum Wage for Restaurant Workers is Only the Beginning
It was bound to happen. Less than a month after the $20-an-hour fast-food restaurant minimum wage kicked in, activists are demanding that all other minimum-wage workers, who got a bump to $16 an hour on Jan. 1, which will be elevated to $18 an hour if voters approve November’s Minimum ...
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Learn how much more you'll pay under $20 restaurant minimum wage
How Much Will Your Favorite Hamburger Cost After Minimum Wage Hike?
Didn’t someone say that raising the minimum wage would hurt most those it is intended to help? Yes, yes they did. And it’s been said many times. Yet here we are in the just-begun era of the $20-an-hour minimum wage and residents in the low-income district of South Los Angeles ...
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Learn the latest about the Newsom Panera Bread scandal
California’s Sourdough Politics
Did the California governor have his cake and let an old friend eat it, too? Late last month, Gavin Newsom was accused of providing a schoolmate’s businesses with an exemption from the minimum wage hike coming on April 1. Both parties deny there was any favoritism. Yet it still looks ...
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Latest wild idea - a $50 minimum wage
Why Don’t Businesses Just Print Money?
Maybe it’s time to start thinking about requiring newly elected lawmakers to take an economics 101 class before they start their first session. It seems that maybe outside of our woke and crumbling public education system, there’s no other institution where economic illiteracy is more prevalent than in government. Example ...
Fast food minimum wage’s predictable result: Fewer jobs, even higher prices to come
Wouldn’t it be nice if the government could make everyone richer simply by passing laws that increase our income? Unfortunately, our world doesn’t work that way. When government chooses winners, someone loses, and nothing illustrates this better than when lawmakers set wage floors, as they did with California’s $20 fast-food ...
Restaurant Minimum Wage Hurting Businesses and the Workers Proponents Seek to Help
In August 2024, Gov. Gavin Newsom took an erroneous victory lap celebrating his policy to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers. The law, AB 1228, effective in April, raised the minimum wage to $20 per hour for fast food workers. Citing preliminary federal data, Newsom claimed California gained ...
$30 minimum wage would be an Olympian error for Los Angeles
The Los Angeles City Council is hiking the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers to $30 an hour. It will turn out to be a five-diamond mistake. The vote wasn’t even close. By a 12-3 margin, the Council decided to give a raise to workers they don’t employ and ...
Rise Of The Machines
Some years ago, in 2018, when the minimum wage in California was $11 an hour for companies with 26 or more employees, a Pasadena burger joint hired a machine named Flippy to turn patties on the grill. “The world’s first autonomous kitchen assistant,” an “upgrade on a human line cook,” ...
New study shows fast food minimum wage law already a disaster
Is it too soon to declare California’s $20-an-hour minimum wage for fast food workers a disaster? After all, it became law only four months ago. How much harm could have been done in such a narrow time frame? Short answer? Quite a bit. The results of a just-released business survey ...
Fast food restaurants are raising prices after minimum wage hike
Their Pleasure: Legislators Cook Up A Law That Burns Fast Food
The new prices, which won’t go up in other states, depend on where the restaurant is. A double-double meal combo at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf now costs $13.63 including taxes; not far away in Daly City, the same meal is $2 cheaper, says the New York Post. In Irvine, near ...
Read on the negative effects of raising minimum wage
$20 Minimum Wage for Restaurant Workers is Only the Beginning
It was bound to happen. Less than a month after the $20-an-hour fast-food restaurant minimum wage kicked in, activists are demanding that all other minimum-wage workers, who got a bump to $16 an hour on Jan. 1, which will be elevated to $18 an hour if voters approve November’s Minimum ...
Learn how much more you'll pay under $20 restaurant minimum wage
How Much Will Your Favorite Hamburger Cost After Minimum Wage Hike?
Didn’t someone say that raising the minimum wage would hurt most those it is intended to help? Yes, yes they did. And it’s been said many times. Yet here we are in the just-begun era of the $20-an-hour minimum wage and residents in the low-income district of South Los Angeles ...
Learn the latest about the Newsom Panera Bread scandal
California’s Sourdough Politics
Did the California governor have his cake and let an old friend eat it, too? Late last month, Gavin Newsom was accused of providing a schoolmate’s businesses with an exemption from the minimum wage hike coming on April 1. Both parties deny there was any favoritism. Yet it still looks ...
Latest wild idea - a $50 minimum wage
Why Don’t Businesses Just Print Money?
Maybe it’s time to start thinking about requiring newly elected lawmakers to take an economics 101 class before they start their first session. It seems that maybe outside of our woke and crumbling public education system, there’s no other institution where economic illiteracy is more prevalent than in government. Example ...
