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How Have Wage Increases Affected Fast Food Workers?

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A Latina woman wearing glasses and a black short-sleeve shirt stands in front of a kitchen stove cooking eggs.
Karina Ceballos cooks chorizo with eggs in her home in Castro Valley on May 2, 2024. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)

How Have Wage Increases Affected Fast Food Workers?

It’s been  over a month since California started requiring most fast food employers in the state to pay a minimum wage of $20 dollars an hour — a big jump from the state’s general minimum wage of $16 dollars.
Reporter: Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED News

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