California to raise minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour

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.
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% 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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