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California FAST Act ($20 Fast-Food Wage)

A sector wage board set $20 - effects genuinely disputed.

Labor & WagesState SenateLiberty check

C · 14/24

1 · The idealist case (in its proponents' own framing)

Use a council to set fair fast-food pay.

2 · The realist counter-case

Critics cite job and price effects.

3 · Predicted vs. measured — with caveats

Berkeley IRLE found +8-9% pay/no job loss; NBER w34033 and Cato estimated ~18k job loss / -3.6%.

4 · Liberty check

Worker pay vs. employment and prices.

5 · The real tradeoff

Contested - the studies disagree.

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