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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16471878

The fast-food industry claims the California minimum wage law is costing jobs. Its numbers are fake

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

From skimming TFA, it's not that the numbers are fake per se, it's that they're wildly misinterpreted.

Job cuts coincided with minimum wage laws, however, they also coincided with seasonal reduction in workforce. So it's entirely expected that that would happen.

Adjusting for seasonal expectations


which you absolutely must do for a proper comparison


gives you the opposite conclusion, and emphatically does not point to the minimum wage having a negative causal link to fast-food employment numbers.