California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs law to raise minimum wage for...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The raise takes effect on April 1 and applies to workers at restaurants that have at least 60 locations nationwide - with an exception for restaurants that make and sell their own bread, like Panera Bread.
53% : That raise wouldn´t apply to doctors and nurses, but to most everyone else who works at hospitals, dialysis clinics or other health care facilities.
51% : Fast food workers will have among the highest minimum wages in the country when the law takes effect on April 1, according to the University of California-Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education.
47% : That's below the California Poverty Measure for a family of four, a statistic calculated by the Public Policy Institute of California and the Stanford Center on Poverty and Equality that accounts for housing costs and publicly-funded benefits.
46% : The law creates a fast food council that has the power to increase that wage each year through 2029 by 3.5 percent or the change in averages for the U.S. Consumer Price Index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, whichever is lower.

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