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There’s no such thing as a free fast-food lunch. Last year California super-sized its minimum wage to $20 an hour for employees at big quick-serve restaurant chains, and new research...

About a decade ago, Gov. Jerry Brown offered this defense of his signing a statewide $15 minimum wage into law: “Economically, minimum wages may not make sense. But morally, socially,...

Everyone in Los Angeles County eats out — often, or from time to time. Since the pandemic, most everyone eats in, too, occasionally — not on cuisine freshly prepared in...

Gavin Newsom keeps denying evidence that his minimum-wage policy hurts workers. California’s political class really is living in La La Land when it comes to economics. Gov. Gavin Newsom keeps denying that...

Workers and consumers pay the price for the state’s rising wage mandates. California’s $20 an hour fast-food minimum wage took effect two months ago, and the casualties are mounting. Rubio’s Coastal Grill, famous for its fish tacos, closed...

The new California $20 minimum wage for most fast-food restaurants hit April 1. It jumped $4.50 from the $15.50 on Dec. 31. That increase definitely is helping the 500,000 workers...

Most of these Monday began paying employees the new minimum wage of $20 an hour for fast-food workers, a $4 an hour hike from California’s already high $16 an hour minimum...