Except that’s not how it played out at all! Fast Food employment did not go down but wages did go up 11%. Prices of food went up 1.5%, which covered half the w

Except that’s not how it played out at all! Fast Food employment did not go down but wages did go up 11%. Prices of food went up 1.5%, which covered half the wage increase, and the employers ate (pun intended) the other half of the cost. Here is the study by UC Berkeley from this April https://irle.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Effects-of-a-20-Minimum-Wage-Evidence-from-Granular-Data-on-Wages-Employment-and-Prices-April-1-2026.pdf https://irle.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Effects...