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Gavin Newsom signs law boosting minimum wage for fast-food workers. Is $20 enough?

Original post made on Oct 1, 2023

More than half a million fast food workers, mostly minorities and women, will earn higher minimum wage because Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a fast food bill Thursday. But some say that’s not a living wage.

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Posted by Joseph E. Davis
a resident of Woodside: Emerald Hills
on Oct 1, 2023 at 7:23 pm
Joseph E. Davis is a registered user.

Raising the minimum wage is something that sounds good but is destructive. It will cause inflation and higher unemployment, along with cutting off one of the valuable starting opportunities for the low skilled.

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