A new UC Santa Cruz study suggests California's $20 fast-food minimum wage leads to fewer hours and higher prices.

It all comes down to some not-so-simple economics.

Instead, it significantly improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of California workers in many of the largest fast-food chains.

A UC Berkeley study shows California’s $20 hourly minimum wage for fast-food workers raised pay by 11% for over 730,000 employees without cutting jobs. Price increases were minimal, averaging 1.5%, as ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Two years ago, a hotly contested law imposing a $20-per-hour minimum wage on franchised fast food outlets took effect.

(FOX40.COM) — When California implemented its $20 minimum wage for fast food workers, critics and supporters were sharply divided on how the policy would affect jobs, wages and prices. Two years later ...

“The results are nowhere as dire as predicted,” Berkeley’s Michael Reich told Fortune.

California’s fast food minimum wage law, which imposed severe cost increases on small businesses and created a useless ...

[Noozhawk’s note: We republish news articles and commentaries from CalMatters on state and local policy issues that affect Santa Barbara County readers.] Two years ago, a hotly contested law imposing ...