Some things in life are difficult. Predicting the negative consequences of exorbitant and rapid minimum wage hikes isn't one ...

When California implemented its $20 minimum wage for fast food workers, critics and supporters were sharply divided on how ...

A new UC Santa Cruz study suggests California's $20 fast-food minimum wage leads to fewer hours and higher prices.

A landmark decision to abolish junior pay scales for 18- to 20-year-olds could end up harming the people it is meant to help, ...

The proposal to raise New York City’s minimum wage to $30 an hour mirrors a key campaign pledge from Mayor Zohran Mamdani and ...

A Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington report this month revealed that factors, like increasing service costs, hit D.C. restaurants hard, causing more than 100 restaurant closures in 2025 ...

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters.” Two years ago, a hotly contested law imposing a $20-per-hour minimum wage on franchised fast food outlets took effect ...

A study from UC Santa Cruz finds California's $20 fast food minimum wage may have come with "unintended consequences." ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom raised the minimum wage for fast food restaurants and the results were entirely predictable.

The New York City Council is considering a bill to raise the minimum wage significantly. It calls for an incremental increase ...

We analyze the effect of California's $20 fast food minimum wage (Assembly Bill 1228), enacted in September 2023 and implemented in April 2024, on consumer prices using the Bureau of Labor Statistics' ...