here is a link to the study that the article cites : https://irle.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Sectoral-Wage-Setting-in-California-09-30-2024.pdf
here is a link to the study that the article cites : https://irle.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Sectoral-Wage-Setting-in-California-09-30-2024.pdf
Yes, but that happened way before the minimum wage hike hit, and was not limited to California. So it’s unrelated.
Ahh. Alright
Not exactly. Just because minimum wage didn’t go up doesn’t mean the minimum wage people were killing to work at fast food chains didn’t go up. Middle of pandemic during the mass exodus from the work force fast food wages spiked drastically. Minimum wage in NY is not $15-$18/hr but that’s where all the starting wage has been for fast food chains hiring and it never went back down. It’s how a true free market capitalist economy is supposed to work.