Despite apocalyptic warnings, California fast food wage hike didn't kill any jobs

Study: Fast Food Wage Hike Didn't Kill Jobs Or Raise Prices

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 …

Despite apocalyptic warnings, California fast food wage hike didn't kill any jobs

This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is published here with permission. In their third report on the subject and second update of data, University of California researchers reach the same conclusions that have twice bedeviled the anti-wage hike sector of the restaurant industry: California’s $20 an hour fast food minimum wage, instituted in 2024, did not reduce employment. It led to only the most modest of price increases — barely not…

Despite apocalyptic warnings, California fast-food wage hike didn’t kill any jobs

This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is published here with permission. In their third report on the subject and second update of data, University of California researchers reach the same conclusions that have twice bedeviled the anti-wage hike sector of the restaurant industry: California’s $20 an hour fast-food minimum wage, instituted in 2024, did not reduce employment. It led to only the most modest of price increases — barely not…