{"id":20383,"date":"2025-11-10T21:08:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20383"},"modified":"2025-11-10T21:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:08:52","slug":"californias-fast-food-minimum-wage-hike-is-killing-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20383","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s Fast-Food Minimum Wage Hike Is Killing Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;On April 1, 2024, California raised its minimum wage from $16 to $20 per hour for fast-food workers employed at chains with more than 60 locations nationwide,&#8221; Je\ufb00rey Clemens, Olivia Edwards, and Jonathan Meer write in a National Bureau of Economic Research&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/research-briefs-economic-policy\/did-californias-fast-food-minimum-wage-reduce-employment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">working paper<\/a>&nbsp;that was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/10\/11\/californias-minimum-wage-law-cost-18000-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first addressed<\/a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<em>Reason<\/em>&#8216;s Peter Suderman in the November print issue. &#8220;Our median estimate suggests that California lost about 18,000 jobs that could have been retained if AB 1228 had not been passed.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/11\/10\/californias-fast-food-minimum-wage-hike-is-killing-jobs\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/11\/10\/californias-fast-food-minimum-wage-hike-is-killing-jobs\/?itm_source=parsely-api<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8221;On April 1, 2024, California raised its minimum wage from $16 to $20 per hour for fast-food workers employed at chains with more than 60 locations nationwide,&#8221; Je\ufb00rey Clemens, Olivia Edwards, and Jonathan Meer write in a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper that was first addressed by Reason&#8217;s Peter Suderman in the November print issue. &#8220;Our median estimate suggests that California lost about 18,000 jobs that could have been retained if AB 1228 had not been passed.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/11\/10\/californias-fast-food-minimum-wage-hike-is-killing-jobs\/?itm_source=parsely-api<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[304,217,165,1469,271,351,411,635],"class_list":["post-20383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-california","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-government-intervention","tag-jobs","tag-minimum-wage","tag-policy","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20384,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383\/revisions\/20384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}