MORE PERFECT UNION @MorePerfectUS : “In April, California raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers from $15.50 to $20/hr. Conservative media freaked out, saying the industry was about to die. LOL Instead fast-food has added 11,000 new jobs in California since the raise took”

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1. I’ve heard A LOT of people online saying the stat has some major issue or the other. I however would like to say that minimum wage increase kinda didn’t matter bc it had a small exception for companies with bakeries for no conceivable reason (the reason was corruption) which just meant all the old fast food places added bakeries so if the stat is right in gonna assume that’s where the jobs came from.

2. tweets to screenshots are now enough to suffice on this sub?

3. One of the values of a minimum wage is it means your competitors can’t pay their employees less than you do. California’s fast-food wage meant that they could compete on everything except employee pay, so it let them all just level up together and that made the pay a lot more competitive with other industries.

   We should have just done $20 for all jobs… presumably that will take another 5-10 years.

4. Almost as if making the job pay better, made the job more appealing for people to want to do it, crazy that, huh?