Research from the University of California, Berkeley, shows that such wage hikes did not lead ... at least in certain parts of the U.S. The chart below highlights minimum wages in 2024 and 2025 ...

California’s $20 minimum-wage mandate officially went into effect on April 1, much to the dismay of major franchisees and Republican critics. AB 1228, hailed as “extraordinarily beneficial ...

One year has passed since 400,000 California workers at fast food chains like McDonald’s and Taco Bell began earning $20 per hour — a special minimum wage that’s thrilled employees and ...

Some California fast-food locations are letting go of workers ahead of a new $20 minimum wage law slated to take effect in April that could dramatically impact their bottom lines. Several ...

California’s $20 fast food wage law (Assembly ... Newsom signed the $20 minimum wage into law in September of 2023, the product of a negotiated settlement between business and labor that kept ...

New research published by Pepperdine University is attempting to settle the debate over whether boosting California’s minimum wage for fast-food workers to $20 an hour has led to job losses.

SACRAMENTO — Democrats in California have agreed to delay a minimum wage increase for about 426,000 health care workers to help balance the state’s budget. The increase was supposed to start on July 1 ...