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Gavin Newsom’s Sunday Circuit on Affordability is Dishonest

February 23, 2026 12:26 pmFebruary 23, 2026 12:26 pm

California Governor Gavin Newsom was cornered by Dana Bash on CNN Sunday about California’s affordability crisis. She said she was out to dinner in Nashville and met a California couple who had moved to Tennessee because they could not afford...

New Economic Study Finds California’s $20 Fast Food Minimum Wage Caused 18,000 Job Losses

July 14, 2025 7:24 amJuly 14, 2025 7:27 am

“New data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics was released Thursday, revealing a staggering 36,565 fast food jobs have been lost since September 2023 when the $20 per hour minimum wage law, AB 1228, was signed into law,” the...

California’s $20 Wage Law Cost Restaurant Workers 7 Weeks Worth of Work

May 20, 2025 2:57 pmMay 22, 2025 6:37 am

The Employment Policies Institute just released new data showing AB 1228, California’s $20 wage law for fast food workers, cost non-tipped restaurant workers 250 hours of work annually, equating to up to 7 weeks of lost work – up to...

AB 1228 One Year Later: How The $20 Fast Food Minimum Wage Has Hurt California

April 1, 2025 1:53 pmApril 1, 2025 1:53 pm

Assembly Bill 1228, the extremely controversial law that raised the fast food minimum wage to $20 an hour in California, turned one year old on Tuesday. And the differences between now and a year have been shown to be pretty...

Fast Food Council Approves Motion To Possibly Raise State Fast Food Minimum Wage By Another 70 Cents

February 27, 2025 8:00 pmFebruary 27, 2025 8:19 pm

The California Fast Food Council approved a motion to consider raising the minimum wage for fast food workers by another 70 cents per hour on Wednesday, with a vote on the matter expected at their next meeting in either April...

California Minimum Wage Madness

January 3, 2025 10:54 amJanuary 3, 2025 10:54 am

“Countries with minimum wage laws almost invariably have higher rates of unemployment than countries without minimum wage laws,” Economist Thomas Sowell explained in 2013. “As for being ‘compassionate’ toward ‘the poor,’ this assumes that there is some enduring class of...

The Top 10 Surprise Elections This Year In California

January 2, 2025 2:45 amJanuary 2, 2025 2:46 am

2024 was a wild year when it came to elections. A close presidential election that wound up not being close at all. The House and Senate going to the GOP. And in California, there were some genuine surprises. Some were...