[HN Gopher] California fast-food workers will get $20 minimum wa...
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       California fast-food workers will get $20 minimum wage, starting
       Monday
        
       Author : geox
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2024-03-30 18:38 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.npr.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.npr.org)
        
       | bike wrote:
       | I'm curious to see how this plays out. It seems like there are a
       | lot of lower paying jobs available and that stores are
       | understaffed. I've also heard that the people working those types
       | of jobs are having trouble getting enough hours. As someone who
       | isn't very keyed in to this its hard to tell what's going on.
       | Either way, its got to be hard to live in California on $20/hr.
        
       | hbogert wrote:
       | Won't this just spur inflation?
        
         | throwaway5959 wrote:
         | No. But this will provide more data that it won't.
        
           | seanmcdirmid wrote:
           | In the big cities at least, $20 is already the floor on most
           | fast food jobs. This will have the most impact in poorer
           | cities and more rural towns.
           | 
           | It should spur more productivity via automation (like more
           | kiosks and robots being used in fast food).
        
       | pjkundert wrote:
       | /Remaining/ California fast-food workers will get $20 minimum
       | wage, starting Monday.
       | 
       | The "minimum wage" is, and remains: $0
        
         | throwaway5959 wrote:
         | Yes we know, you can gleefully brag about the mass layoffs of
         | fast food workers soon. Please post here when it happens.
        
           | Gibbon1 wrote:
           | One silver lining about the pandemic is cat out of the bag
           | how robust the economy is despite what MBA's, economists, and
           | rentier billionaires would have you think. And political
           | leaders are now well aware of the bill of goods they were
           | sold by those knuckleheads.
        
             | delfinom wrote:
             | Can we blame the welfare queens from starting to drum up
             | support for more taxpayer funded bailouts in anticipation
             | of a recession?
        
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