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https://irle.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Effects-of-a-20-Minimum-Wage-Evidence-from-Granular-Data-on-Wages-Employment-and-Prices-April-1-2026.pdf
In 2023, California passed a law raising the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 an hour. The usual suspects predicted that it would be a disaster, leading to massive job losses and making the food unaffordable for consumers. Since the law was enacted in 2024, the University of California-Berkeley has recently released its third study into the impact of the law. Let's just say that the collapse of society because workers got paid a living wage was greatly exaggerated. The study again proved that there was no loss in employment and that prices climbed so negligibly that it would barely be noticed by the consumers. But that's not to say the wage hike had no effect. It had a major one: It significantly improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of California workers in many of the industry’s largest fast-food chains, with an average wage increase of more than 10%.read more
https://crooksandliars.com/2026/04/study-fast-food-wage-hike-didnt-kill-jobs
