Featured Research (See All)
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The First Birthday of California’s $20 Fast Food Wage: Over 16,000 Jobs Lost, Price Increases, Restaurants Closed
A.B. 1228 enacted a $20 minimum wage and standards-setting council for California’s fast food industry. The law was signed in September 2023 and went into effect starting April 1, 2024. Soon after Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing of the law, restaurants, customers, and employees alike began bracing for its impacts, even before April. Headlines broke as early as October 2023 following… -
Measuring the Fallout of Initiative 82: The Consequences of Tip Credit Elimination in the District of Columbia
Initiative 82 was a ballot measure backed by One Fair Wage and opposed by local tipped restaurant workers. The measure passed at the ballot in 2022, and began scheduled wage hikes on May 1, 2023, followed by additional increases July 1, 2023 and July 1, 2024. While these increases are scheduled to continue until the District’s tip credit no longer… -
Union-Backed Researchers Miss The Mark On California’s $20 Fast Food Wage:
Recent reports released by the University of California-Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Education (IRLE) and The Shift Project, a Berkeley IRLE-funded outfit run by Harvard Kennedy School’s Daniel Schneider and UC-San Francisco’s Kristen Harknett, claim California’s new $20 minimum wage for fast food restaurants has not hurt restaurant operators, employees, or consumers. Not only do these claims run…
Published Op-Eds (See All)
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Neumark: Raising tipped minimum wages won’t close minority and gender pay gaps
September 24, 2024 • The Detroit News
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Save Michigan restaurants from failed tip credit elimination experiment
August 9, 2024 • The Detroit News
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California’s not so golden for fast food businesses
July 25, 2024 • Orange County Register
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Listen to Ohio’s servers – they’re the ones whose jobs are on the line
June 27, 2024 • Center Square Ohio
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Eliminating New York’s tip credit is a terrible idea
March 25, 2024 • The Buffalo News
Press Releases (See All)
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Full-Page Ad Slams First Birthday of California’s “Crappiest Law”
April 1, 2025
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NEW DATA: Staggering 16,000 Jobs Lost Under Newsom’s $20 Fast Food Wage Law
March 6, 2025
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New SEIU-Funded Report Concedes $20 Wage Law Caused Job Losses
February 26, 2025
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Initiative 82 Backfired On Workers, New Study Shows
January 7, 2025
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New Policy Brief Proves California’s $20 Fast Food Wage is Costing Jobs, Raising Prices
November 4, 2024