On April 1, the new California $20-per-hour minimum wage for fast-food workers went into effect. In signing the bill, California Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected the view that such a wage hike — 25% above the state’s current minimum wage — hurts teenagers who disproportionately benefit from fast-food jobs and for whom […]
Who could possibly have seen this coming? California’s minimum wage for fast food workers is going up next week and some chains are already planning layoffs in response. Newsom signed the bill raising the minimum wage last September. When it takes effect on April 1, fast food workers in California will have the highest guaranteed […]
You cannot outlaw reality, no matter how attractive the idea or how hard you wish it were true. Gig delivery drivers in Seattle are learning this the hard way (as are Uber and Lyft drivers in Minneapolis). Just two weeks after the law went into effect, Seattleites had to contend with $26 coffees and $32 […]
One of the fundamental jobs of local government is public safety. Usually that means funding a police force that is capable of dealing with whatever crime a city is facing. But progressive city supervisors in San Francisco, many of whom were fans of defunding the police just a few years ago, are now putting forward […]
California’s new minimum wage hike has not even gone into effect and it is already costing the jobs of the very people it was supposed to help. The Democrat-dominated state Legislature passed Assembly Bill 1228 in September and Gov. Gavin Newsom quickly signed it into law. The law raises the minimum wage for fast food […]
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