{"id":172124,"date":"2025-07-27T09:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=172124"},"modified":"2025-07-26T15:58:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T19:58:23","slug":"californias-20-food-minimum-wage-hike-cost-approximately-18000-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=172124","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s $20 food minimum wage hike cost approximately 18,000 jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/congrats-on-raising-the-minimum-wage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/congrats-on-raising-the-minimum-wage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) published a study that concluded what many here repeatedly argued. California&#8217;s $20 minimum wage for their fast-food industry resulted in the loss of approximately 18,000 jobs. The resulting reduction in California&#8217;s fast-food sector contrasts with the expansion of the food industry sector in the other parts of the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>From Fox Business:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The research found that in the year since the bill went into law, California&#8217;s fast food employment contracted while fast food employment around the country expanded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following AB 1228&#8217;s enactment, employment in the fast food sector in California fell substantially, with estimates ranging from 2.3 to 3.9 percent across specifications, even as employment in other sectors of the California economy tracked national trends,&#8221; the researchers stated, noting that employment in the same sector increased by around &#8220;0.10 percent&#8221; around the country.<\/p>\n<p>The paper noted that prior to AB 1228 going into effect, California&#8217;s fast-food sector &#8220;was on a similar path as the rest of the United States prior to AB 1228&#8217;s enactment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Critics slammed the wage hike in the wake of the study.<\/p>\n<p>In a column for The Daily Signal, The Heritage Foundation economic expert Rachel Greszler wrote, &#8220;When it comes to central planning, history keeps the receipts: Wage controls never work. That&#8217;s because policymakers can set wage laws, but they can&#8217;t outlaw the consequences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greszler added, &#8220;The consequences of that wage hike on the fast-food industry should be a warning sign&#8221; for the city of Los Angeles in particular, after it recently voted to increase the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers to $30 by 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal editorial board said Monday that the notion a substantial minimum wage hike helps the economy is &#8220;magical thinking.&#8221; It also criticized New York City mayoral candidates Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani for proposing similar wage hikes if elected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hays, G. (2025, July 26). Study shows that California&#8217;s $20 minimum wage hike cost state 18,000 jobs. <em>Fox Business<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/media\/study-shows-californias-20-minimum-wage-hike-cost-state-18000-jobs\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) published a study that concluded what many here repeatedly &hellip; <a title=\"California&#8217;s $20 food minimum wage hike cost approximately 18,000 jobs\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=172124\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">California&#8217;s $20 food minimum wage hike cost approximately 18,000 jobs<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,472,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-democrats","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}