April Fools: Minimum Wage Increases to $20

Michael Busler
DataDrivenInvestor
Published in
4 min readApr 1, 2024

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The $20 minimum wage will result in massive job loss, higher prices and some restaurants closing.

Starting on April Fool’s Day, the minimum wage for all workers in the fast-food industry in California will increase to $20 per hour. Apart from fast food workers employed at airports, hotels, event centers, theme parks and museums, the $20 affects all workers. Except for one small town near…

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Dr. Busler is an economist and a public policy analyst. He is a Professor of Finance at Stockton University. His op-ed columns appear in Townhall, Newsmax.