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In COMPLETELY PREDICTABLE Outcome, Shake Shack Closing Several CA Locations Following Minimum Wage Hike

 Everyone with two brain cells to rub together knew this was going to happen. Which is why California Democrats went ahead and did it. Between the lot of them, there aren't two brain cells to rub together.

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PODCAST | Less Government. More Freedom.

Listen now (26 mins) | Before we get to this morning’s segment on The Captain’s America: Third Watch, I wanted to double down on some things we talked about at the end of the second segment. First, we need to expunge the idea that the Democrat Party i

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Mapped: Minimum Wage Around the World

This infographic shows the net minimum wage across 67 countries, as of January 2023. A breakdown by U.S. state is also included.

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Costco Resorts to Capitalism to Attract the Best Employees Over Minimum Wage

Costco's CEO, Craig Jelinek, announced the beginning of a "minimum wage war" with competitors, Target and Amazon, saying his stores will rai

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Democrat Congressman: ‘We Don’t Want’ Small Businesses That Can’t Handle a $15 Minimum Wage

US Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), made a bold statement about American small businesses when he recently stated in an interview that Democrats “don’t want” small “Mom and Pop” businesses – including restaurants – that cannot absorb a $15 minimum wag

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Podcast | Underground USA | United States

Underground USA is an irreverent, brutally truthful, fact-based podcast. Nancy Pelosi and the Marxist-Progressive bloodthirsty Democrats, who out of one side of their mouths plead for unity and out of the other call for crushing their opponents have impea

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$15 minimum wage hike is hitting, hurting NYC restaurants

Big Apple restaurants are feeling the heat from minimum-wage hikes, cutting staff hours and even closing kitchens as they struggle to shoulder the extra payroll costs.

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New York City businesses struggle after minimum wage increase

More than six months after the $15 minimum wage went into effect in New York City, business leaders and owners say the increased labor costs have forced them to cut staff, eliminate work shifts and raise prices.

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LOL: Bernie Isn't Paying Staffers the $15 Minimum Wage He Champions

It would seem that Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), that tireless champion of the poor, downtrodden, and underpaid is kind of full of it. The Washington Post reports that the field hires on Sanders' presidential campaign aren't happy with what their socialist

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ICYMI: Ocasio-Cortez Got Slapped With Reality After Throwing Minimum Wage Tantrum

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is the Left’s answer to Donald Trump. She’s feisty. She’s bombastic! She's an idiot.

Business & Finance | Economics

New York's Minimum Wage Hike Had the Devastating Effect Economists Predicted

New York’s Minimum Wage Hike Had the Devastating Effect Economists Predicted

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Whole Foods Adopts $15 Minimum Wage, Then Starts Slashing Workers' Hours 'Significantly'

The dream of the $15 minimum wage was finally realized among Amazon employees after the company caved to mounting pressure and implemented it company-wide on Nov. 1.

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McDonald's: No Cashiers, Kiosks Only By 2020

McDonald's will roll out self-order kiosks to 1,000 stores every quarter for the next two years, according to CEO Steve Easterbrook.

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New study casts doubt on the benefit of Seattle's $15 minimum wage - Jun. 26, 2017

Two new reports come to very different conclusions about how the wage hike is playing out.

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A ‘very credible’ new study on Seattle’s $15 minimum wage has bad news for liberals

When Seattle officials voted three years ago to incrementally boost the city's minimum wage up to $15 an hour, they'd hoped to improve the lives of low-income workers. Yet according to a major new study that could force economists to reassess past research on the issue, the hike has had the opposite effect.

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The Coming Minimum-Wage Tsunami Will Wash Away Millions Of Minority Jobs | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

One of the most vexing economic issues today is the minimum wage. For many, the failure to raise the minimum wage to $15 or higher is a sign of our nation's

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Wendy's Explains What Really Happens With A Minimum Wage Rise: Job Losses

We've had innumerable people who have never run a business in their lives trying to tell us that the effects of a minimum wage rise can only be glorious. So it's refreshing to hear the views of someone who will actually have to deal with the effects of a

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$15 Is Too Much Even For Those Who Support A Higher Minimum Wage

What's becoming very interesting about this rumpus over the minimum wage is that we're seeing even those who support a higher minimum wage in general stating that they think that $15 an hour is just too high. The deeper point of this being that th

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Seattle Sees Unexpected Fallout from $15 Per Hour Min. Wage

Seattle Sees Unexpected Fallout from $15 Per Hour Min. Wage

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Sorry, Paul Krugman: The Minimum Wage Won’t Cure Poverty

Studies Paul Krugman ignores show minimum wage increases significantly reduce the probability of low-skill workers reaching the middle class.

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This is What Happened to Chipotle’s Menu After the SF Minimum Wage Hike

In order to compensate for having to pay their employees more, businesses hike up their prices, no doubt turning off customers to their services. Either that, or they employ fewer people, making acquiring a job that much more difficult for the unemployed.

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Why Fast Food Workers Might Not Want a $15 Minimum Wage | TIME

A new report shows how fast food restaurants in New York would react to a $15 minimum wage.

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Restaurant Trend: Waiters Tips to Pay for Minimum Wage Hike

Sacramento restaurants solved the problem of increased labor costs inflicted on them from California's new minimum wage increase by taking a slice of waiters and waitresses tips.

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What's the Right Minimum Wage? - Prager University

What's the perfect minimum wage: is it $10 an hour? $15? $20? How about zero? That's right. Zero. While Congress discusses a minimum wage hike, economist David Henderson shows that any minimum wage makes it harder for unemployed people (particularly young

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Socialists Wants $20 Wage, Offer $13 | The Daily Caller

Freedom Socialist Party in Seattle that wants $20 per hour minimum wage but advertises job for experienced web developer paying $13 per hour

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$15 Minimum Wage Would Hike Fast Food Prices by 38%

A minimum-wage increase would result in fewer hours of work overall at fast-food restaurants and higher prices for all.

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Minnesota Restaurant Adds 'Minimum Wage Fee,' Angers Idiots

Capitalism is mean. Turning a profit is bad. If you give people more money, they'll have more money. More money is good. And if you tell your customers that

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NFL Cheerleaders Finally Have Something to Cheer About

When Oakland Raiders cheerleader Lacy T. filed a class-action lawsuit against her team in January—alleging that she and her fellow Raiderettes were paid less than minimum wage, illegally fined for minor infractions (like gaining five pounds), and ge