David Neumark

California workers at most fast-food chains with more than 60 locations will make $20 an hour starting on April 1, 2024. It's a new state law and economists say it will affect you. "Higher prices but that's not all," said David Neumark who is [a Distinguished Professor of economics] at the University of California, Irvine. … "You might have longer lines, you might have dirtier dirty restaurants, there is even a study from Seattle when they raised the minimum wage hygiene violations increased, but consumer prices is also one potential route," said Professor Neumark.

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