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

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

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 stark. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Current Employment Statistics (CES), 22,717 fast food jobs have been lost in the past year when seasonally adjusted. The Berkeley Research Group also found that fast f…