California FAST Act ($20 Fast-Food Wage)
A sector wage board set $20 - effects genuinely disputed.
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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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