Californians Will Decide On Minimum Wage, Rent Control, Slavery, & More In November 2024
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Epoch Times ^
| 07/07/2024 | Sophie Li
California voters will decide on 10 ballot measures in November, addressing a wide range of issues including the minimum wage, rent control, public safety, taxes, education, and health care.Each of the initiatives - including three state constitutional amendments and two multibillion-dollar bonds - will need approval from at least 50 percent of
voters to pass.State Constitutional AmendmentsProp. 3: Marriage Equality (ACA 5)The California Constitution currently states that only marriage between a man and a woman is recognized in the state, but federal law prevents the enforcement of this provision.A yes vote on this ballot measure means removing this state constitutional...
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San Francisco McDonald’s shutters after 30 years in latest casualty of $20 minimum wage: ‘Gut-wrenching’
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NY Post ^
| 6-23-24 | Alex Oliveira
A longtime San Francisco McDonald’s has become the latest casualty of California’s new $20 minimum wage, according to reports. The
McDonald’s at the Stonestown Galleria shopping mall, about eight miles southwest of downtown San Francisco, was permanently shuttered Sunday after more than 30 years serving the area. “This is a gut-wrenching day for my family,” franchise owner Scott Rodrick said, according to ABC 7. Rodrick blamed the closure on a number of factors — but said the newly rolled-out law hiking the statewide minimum wage from $16 to $20 an hour pushed the business over the edge. Coupled with the...
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J.D. Vance's Incoherent Argument for Higher Minimum Wages
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Reason ^
| 6.14.2024 | Eric Boehm
Vance thinks that jobs lost because of incompetent central planning don't matter—but that jobs lost to immigrants do.In an interview published this week by The New York Times, Sen. J.D. Vance (R–Ohio) calls for a more muscular federal government to intervene even more aggressively in the economy than it already does, to
create what Vance calls "incentives" for American workers. In doing so, Vance inadvertently reveals one of the major flaws in this line of analysis. Vance's opinions about these things carry significant weight, in no small part because he's on the shortlist to be Donald Trump's running mate. With...
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California fast food restaurants have cut 10,000 jobs since state passed $20 minimum wage: business agency
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New York Post via MSN ^
| 06/08/2024 | Ariel Zilber
California fast food restaurants have slashed nearly 10,000 jobs because of the state’s new $20 minimum wage as struggling franchises cut labor costs and raise prices to survive, a major trade group said Thursday. The California Business and Industrial Alliance (CABIA) slammed Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for pushing through the law, which
went into effect April 1 – and was blamed for forcing one beloved taco chain to shutter 48 locations in the state last week. “California businesses have been under total attack and total assault for years,” CABIA president and founder Tom Manzo told Fox Business. “It’s just another...
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Report: 10,000 California Fast Food Jobs Cut Due to $20 Minimum Wage
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Breitbart ^
| 06/09/2024 | Amy Furr
Approximately 10,000 jobs have reportedly been slashed at California fast food eateries after the minimum wage was hiked to $20. Gov.
Gavin Newsom’s (D) law to pay workers $20 an hour went into effect on April 1 and has apparently taken a devastating toll on the industry, Fox Business reported Wednesday. The outlet continued: The California Business and Industrial Alliance (CABIA) said nearly 10,000 jobs have been cut across fast food restaurants since Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 1228 into law last year. To highlight what it says are the unintended consequences of the law, CABIA has taken out an...
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California fast-food restaurants have cut nearly 10,000 jobs due to the new $20 minimum-wage law
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Not the Bee ^
| 06/07/2024 | Wolfgang Ramsay
You won't believe this, folks, but California's new $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers has caused fast-food restaurants in that state to cut nearly 10,000 jobs.
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$20 Minimum Wage Folly
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Daily Signal ^
| May 30, 2024 | John Stossel
California now leads the nation in imposing dumb wage laws. The
state just raised the hourly minimum wage for fast food workers to $20. Gov. Gavin Newsom said, “We saw the inequities … we had a responsibility to do more.” Unions pushed for the higher minimum, and in Democrat-run states, unions usually get what they want. CNN announced, “Half a million California fast food workers will now earn $20 per hour!” Gullible leftists at the Center for American Progress claim, “A higher minimum wage would boost millions of families out of poverty and further stimulate the economy.” Yippee! It’s a...
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California's $20 Fast Food Minimum Wage Law Is Already Having Disastrous Unintended Consequences
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Reason ^
| 5.29.2024 | John Stossel
Many have seen their hours reduced—or have lost their jobs entirely.California now leads the nation in imposing dumb wage laws. The
state just raised the hourly minimum wage for fast food workers to $20. Gov. Gavin Newsom said, "We saw the inequities….We had a responsibility to do more." Unions pushed for the higher minimum, and in Democrat-run states, unions usually get what they want. CNN announced, "Half a million California fast food workers will now earn $20 per hour." Gullible leftists at the Center for American Progress claim, "A higher minimum wage would boost millions of families out of poverty...
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Nolte: Gavin Newsom Backs Off Stupid $25 Minimum Wage Healthcare Law
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Breitbart ^
| 05/28/2024 | JOHN NOLTE
Gov. Gavin Newson (D-CA) is backing off a law he passed mandating a $25 minimum wage for healthcare workers. As
a Wall Street Journal editorial points out, Newsom is only doing this because the state feels the burden of this stupid law. California has already pummeled private businesses with stupid $20 minimum wage laws, which remain in place. But… Since the fascist state of California picks up much of the state’s healthcare tab, Newsom is backpedaling: The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal wrote: The state’s budget deficit has ballooned to $45 billion. Mr. Newsom projects that the new...
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Fast food chains find a way around $20 minimum wage: Get rid of the workers
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Washington Times ^
| April 24, 2024
In response to recent minimum wage increases in California, fast food restaurants across the state are shifting to automation to get rid of wage-earning humans. The
move to making customers place orders at digital kiosks alleviates what owners say is the financial strain of rising labor costs after the minimum wage for the state’s fast food workers increased on April 1 from $16 to $20 per hour. Harsh Ghai, a Burger King franchise owner who manages 140 outlets along the West Coast, is leading the transition to automation. He plans to introduce digital kiosks across all his restaurants within months...
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California Employees Arrive At Restaurant Only To Discover Closure Due To Newsom’s $20 Minimum Wage
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State of the Union ^
| 4/21 | Evelyn Thomas
In California, a Foster’s Freeze location closed and laid off its workers due to a new $20 per hour minimum wage that took effect April 1st. The
wage increase was mandated by Governor Gavin Newsom under a law raising the fast food minimum wage by 25% to $20 an hour. The assistant manager said the owner could no longer afford the higher salaries. Some employees initially thought it was an April Fool’s joke. Prior reports indicated many California restaurants had already begun layoffs anticipating the wage hike. While economists debate the impacts of minimum wage increases, the restaurant industry is...
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Study: Democrat-Run California’s Fast Food Prices Jumped Seven Percent Prior to $20 Minimum Wage
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Breitbart ^
| 04/19/2024 | AMY FURR
Fast food prices in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) California jumped during the six-month period before the Democrat-run state mandated a $20 minimum wage in the industry, according to a study. Prices
rose seven percent during that time, the New York Post reported on Friday, citing a study from Datassential. “California registered the highest rate of menu price inflation in the country in the period leading up to April 1 — when the minimum wage increase from $16 an hour to $20 an hour went into effect,” the outlet said in reference to the study.
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How California fast food restaurants raised menu prices in response to $20 minimum wage
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New York Post ^
| April 16, 2024 | Ariel Zilber
California-based fast food restaurants have hiked the price of menu items by as much as 8% in response to the $20-an-hour minimum wage law that went into effect April 1. .... A typical Chicken Burrito from a California Chipotle will now cost $10.25, while the average price of a Steak Burrito will
set you back $12. ... Wendy’s also instituted substantial price hikes on staple menu items
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McDonald's $25 'deal' goes viral; users blame California's minimum-wage increase: 'Your new normal'
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Fox Business ^
| 4/10/2024 | Andrea Vacchiano
A viral social media video about a $25 McDonald's "deal" recently sparked an online debate about California's minimum-wage increase. A
TikTok user who posts videos under the username @shannon_montipaya shared the video on March 27. She was in the drive-thru of a Southern California McDonald's location when she saw a sign for a 40-piece Chicken McNugget meal deal, which also included two large orders of fries. The price of the meal bundle was $25.39 — including sales tax, it would come to roughly $27. In the video, the social media user lamented that the meal didn't even include a drink....
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Labor group demands California's $20 minimum wage for fast food workers extend to all sectors
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FOX Business ^
| April 11, 2024 | Bradford Betz
The law has stoked a flurry of warnings from restaurant owners and industry insiders that the consumers will bear the cost of the minimum wage increase ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A fair wage advocacy group is demanding that California’s new $20 minimum wage law for fast food workers be extended to all sectors to help
working-class people who are struggling with the state's high cost of living. FOX Business spoke with Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage, to discuss what she described as the skyrocketing levels of home insecurity and food insecurity post-pandemic. Fast food workers winning a $20 minimum wage, she...
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McDonald's $25 Deal Angers Customers, Shows Damage California's $20 Minimum Wage Is Doing to Fast-Food Industry
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Western Journal ^
| 4-11-24 | Samantha Chang
The runaway inflation raging under Joe Biden’s failed presidency has gotten so bad that some Americans are being priced out of eating at McDonald’s. Exacerbating the situation in California is the new $20-an-hour minimum wage, which has forced many fast food chains — once considered an affordable meal option — to anger
customers by hiking prices. This is the second time in three months the Golden State has raised its minimum wage. In January, the state increased the minimum wage to $16 an hour from $11. A TikTok user lamented that she had paid more than $25 for a 40-piece...
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California's minimum wage hike blamed for Fosters Freeze store closing down — worker laments she'd rather have the old wage because 'now we don't have a job'
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AP MoneyWise ^
| April 5, 2024 | Jing Pan
A Fosters Freeze outlet in Lemoore shut down on Monday — the same day the new minimum wage kicked in — and its workers are now out of a job. Monica
Navarro, former assistant general manager of that Fosters Freeze location, told Fox Business that she and her former colleagues would prefer the old wage over being unemployed. “From the people that I spoke to, my employees, we would have rather stayed at the wage that we did have before, just because now we don't have a job,” she said. She also observed the impacts of the new minimum wage...
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California's $20 Minimum Wage Costing Jobs [semi-satire]
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Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^
| 7 April 2024 | John Semmens
Democrats' belief that raising the minimum wage for fast food employers would benefit them is being undermined by businesses closing down and/or laying off portions of their labor force. Loren
Wright, owner of a Fosters Freeze franchise in Lemoore, said "my employees told me they'd rather have a job at the old wage than be laid off, but the new law doesn't give us that option. Gov. Newsom's restaurant does have that option." Newsom hastened to point out that "I'm only one of the owners of the PlumpJack Cafe. The law exempted this kind of restaurant from the required minimum...
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Burger King, In-N-Out and other chain locations in California raise prices after minimum wage increase: report
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Fox Business ^
| 4/05/24 | Jeffrey Clark
Prices for burgers, fries and other fast food items have increased at various restaurant chains across California, according to a recent report. A
New York Post investigation revealed that some fast food chains in the Los Angeles area raised prices on April 1, after new California statewide legislation went into effect Monday enforcing a $20 minimum wage for restaurants that have at least 60 locations nationwide, except those that make and sell their own bread. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the legislation, AB 1228, into law in September. In addition to the pay raises, it also establishes a "Fast Food Council,"...
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California fast food workers stunned as restaurant closes without warning over $20 minimum wage: ‘Only the beginning’
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New York Post ^
| April 4, 2024 | Kristen Altus
Another California small business and its workers have seemingly suffered at the hands of the state’s newly enacted $20 minimum wage. ... When making their way to work Monday morning, Navarro and her team learned upon arrival that the restaurant owner had made the decision to close its doors for good. The
owner, Loren Wright, told local Fox affiliate KMPH that this was the “last thing” they wanted to do, but knew by Friday night the business likely wouldn’t be able to absorb the wage hike and didn’t “want to ruin their Easter Sunday.” The new California statewide legislation went...
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