minimum wage policy
Will Starbucks Baristas nationwide quit en masse, and head to NYC?
Photo below – Hollywood’s take on what working at a NYC coffee shop is like. Pop quiz – what’s the starting wage for a Starbucks barista? $15. It that higher or lower than you guessed?... $30 minimum wage now declared “unaffordable” in California.
Photo below - 13,000 homes were destroyed in the January 2025 wildfires. Only a dozen have been rebuilt. Are delays like this why Los Angeles has the worst housing affordability in America? I can’t recite the complete history of California’s minimum wage hikes....