{"id":6895,"date":"2024-04-01T09:30:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=6895"},"modified":"2024-04-01T09:31:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:31:21","slug":"the-results-of-californias-new-20-fast-food-minimum-wage-are-already-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/01\/the-results-of-californias-new-20-fast-food-minimum-wage-are-already-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The Results of California\u2019s New $20 Fast Food Minimum Wage Are Already In"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gavin Newsom fought to exempt Panera Bread<\/a> supposedly because the owner was a donor, but I just can’t help but think they’ll exempt a lot of megacorp restaurants and leave small mom and pop restaurants under the yoke of this tyranny, doomed to be economically unfeasible. And this makes it easier for the OCGFC to poison you, getting you in their medical and pharmaceutical wealth transfer scheme. Of course, this also lays the groundwork to necessitate universal basic income<\/a>, digital ID, CBDC, social credit, vaccine passport… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/the-results-of-californias-new-20-fast-food-minimum-wage-are-already-in\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Thousands of jobs have already been eliminated by California’s law to raise the minimum wage to $20 for restaurant workers, which goes into effect April 1.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>By Jon Miltimore<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For eight years, Michael Ojeda delivered food for a Pizza Hut in Ontario, California<\/a>, using the income he received to support his family<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December, the 29-year-old received a letter from the pizza<\/a> franchise informing him that his employment was being terminated in February. The news shook him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPizza Hut was my career for nearly a decade and with little to no notice it was taken away,\u201d Ojeda said, whose story was recently highlighted<\/a> by the Wall Street Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ojeda appears to be just one of the thousands of casualties of a new California law that will raise the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $20 an hour on April 1 for all restaurant chains that have at least 60 locations nationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making $20 instead of $15 sounds like a win, but economics shows there\u2019s no such thing as a free lunch. California lawmakers just proved it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the minimum wage goes up, the money to pay workers must come from somewhere, and it typically comes from three places: higher consumer prices, reduced labor costs in other areas (fewer workers, fewer hours, reduced benefits, etc.), and lower profits and capital expenditures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many minimum wage proponents want to focus just on that last item (profits) and ignore the other adverse consequences of the policy. But events unfolding in California show this is a mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Restaurant franchises such as Chipotle, Jack in the Box, and McDonald\u2019s have already announced<\/a> they\u2019ll be jacking up prices to cover increased labor costs, which are expected to increase by roughly $250,000 per location for many of these restaurants (though the economics here is nuanced<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But raising menu prices isn\u2019t the only way California restaurants are responding. Records submitted to the state show<\/a> Pizza Hut and Round Table Pizza plan to sack nearly 1,300 delivery drivers. Other chains are taking similar actions, and many restaurants have stopped hiring new workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not unexpected. Critics of the law predicted<\/a> it would result in less employment, and that\u2019s exactly what has happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCalifornia had 726,600 people working in fast-food and other limited-service eateries in January,\u201d the Wall Street Journal<\/em> reports, \u201cdown 1.3% from last September, when the state backed a deal for the increased wages.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not the only way restaurants will reduce labor costs, of course. Benefit cuts, fewer hours, and a shift toward automation are also on the table. But the layoffs at California restaurants are what is currently generating the most attention, and for good reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work isn\u2019t just a paycheck. For many, it\u2019s something that brings meaning<\/em>, an idea the author David Sturt explored in his bestselling book Great Work<\/em>, which showed that even so-called \u201cunglamorous jobs\u201d often provide purpose and a sense of responsibility to those who work them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is one reason researchers say losing a job can be psychologically crushing<\/a>. It destroys that sense of purpose while simultaneously taking away from people the single biggest antidote to poverty: a job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not mere rhetoric. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that just 4%<\/a> of people who spend at least 27 or more weeks per year in the labor force fall below the poverty line (compared to 12.4% overall<\/a>). Census data show that the rate falls to 2.4%<\/a> for those who work full-time year-round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not an exaggeration to say that a job is the single most important path out of poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is why so many economists lament minimum wage laws. They reduce employment by raising the cost of labor above the value the worker is able to bring to the employer. This is why minimum wage laws tend to fall hardest on the most vulnerable workers in society, consigning to the unemployment line those with the fewest skills and who can offer the least value to employers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is only one way to regard a minimum wage law: it is compulsory unemployment, period,\u201d the economist Murray Rothbard stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you doubt this, consider Ojeda, who, after eight years as a driver for Pizza Hut, was unceremoniously axed. The wages and tips he received as a driver are gone, and he recently filed for unemployment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Ojeda will continue to provide for his mother and partner is unclear. But how he arrived here is: California lawmakers outlawed his job by presuming to know what a \u201cjust\u201d wage is for restaurant workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the California legislature is reportedly scrambling<\/a> to carve out additional exemptions for restaurants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Ojeda and the thousands of other fast-food workers put out of work by California\u2019s law, it\u2019s already too late. And these job losses reveal the truth of economist Thomas Sowell\u2019s famous adage: The real minimum wage is $0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gavin Newsom fought to exempt Panera Bread supposedly because the owner was a donor, but I just can’t help but think they’ll exempt a lot of megacorp restaurants and leave small mom and pop restaurants under the yoke of this tyranny, doomed to be economically unfeasible. And this makes it easier for the OCGFC to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6897,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions\/6897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}