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Why Hasn’t the California Globe Retracted Its Story?

The Big Picture

Right up top, we have the lede: Earlier in June, the Globe reported that California has lost just under 10,000 fast food jobs since the new $20 minimum wage for fast food employees was first signed into law late last year, according to the California Business and Industrial Alliance (CABIA). Baby steps. No, dear reader. They have not.

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UPDATE: New CA QSR Min Wage Study. A Victory Lap.

The Big Picture

@TBPInvictus here: If you’re not aware of the brouhaha that was stirred about a year or so ago when CA Gov Gavin Newsom signed into law (taking effect April 1, 2024) a new $20 minimum wage for so-called “limited service” (a/k/a fast food or QSR) restaurant workers, read up here , here , or here. Its numbers are fake.

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Debunking QSR Minimum Wage BS: A Follow Up

The Big Picture

I wrote: It appears to me that the Journal got that number from BLS. His headline is classic: The fast-food industry claims the California minimum wage law is costing jobs. Its numbers are fake. Source : The fast-food industry claims the California minimum wage law is costing jobs. Its numbers are fake.

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: Amazon’s Whole Foods plans layoffs, restructuring: WSJ

MarketWatch

Amazon.com’s AMZN Whole Foods is planning to cut “several hundred” corporate jobs, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing a memo it viewed. The grocer also plans to reorganize its corporate structure “to simplify operations,” including cutting down its number of operational regions, the report said.

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Seattle Redux: Misunderstanding Seasonal Adjustments

The Big Picture

What followed in the immediate aftermath of both the announcement and implementation was nothing less than a apocalyptic, collective head explosion on the right about the devastating effects the increase would have, particularly in the food services sector: However, there’s little doubt that the city’s heralded food scene is running scared.

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Never Mix Payroll and Household Survey Data

The Big Picture

MSM uncritically repeated the false number. Our story so far: Hoover Institution’s Lee Ohanian wrote a piece last April falsely claiming that California’s new minimum wage law had cost the state almost 10,000 fast food jobs. I spend far too much time debunking economic b t. The story was false. Shame on all.]

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The Food Pyramid Is Killing Us

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

It laid out the threat and dug in with some numbers. If you do some research you will find that all sorts of changes to our health and how we "manage" chronic maladies started to change, coincident to the US adopting the food pyramid calling for more "healthy grains" a little over 40 years ago. Don't take my word for it.

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