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Trump claims California's $20 fast-food minimum wage hurts businesses. The truth is a lot more complicated

The restaurant industry predicted disaster after California instituted a $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers, but data shows that hasn't happened. Read More

Fact‑Checking the Politics: What California’s $20 Fast‑Food Wage Really Changed

What happens when a political claim insists that an industry is collapsing, but the data tells a far more tangled story? A $20 minimum wage for fast food has become a political lightning rod in ... Read More

California's Fast Food Minimum Wage Hike Cost the State 18,000 Jobs. That Shouldn't Surprise Anyone.

In 2023, California passed a law requiring a $20 per hour minimum wage for all fast-food restaurants with more than 60 locations nationwide. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom portrayed the union-supported ... Read More

After 2 years and 20,000 jobs, California’s fast food wage hike is a failure

It’s been two years since Gavin Newsom signed the so-called FAST Recovery Act, creating a $20 minimum wage for fast food workers. Instead of a raise, the best data shows these workers lost hours or ... Read More

California's Fast-Food Minimum Wage Hike Is Killing Jobs

In 2023, California adopted a law that raised the minimum wage to $20 per hour. It also created a Fast Food Council with the power to further increase wages by dictate every year. Twenty bucks an hour ... Read More

A $30 minimum wage? It could be coming, California

The $30-an-hour wage would become the highest minimum wage in America. Several cities in the state of Washington, including Seattle, currently stand atop the minimum wage ranks, at more than $20 an ... Read More