on January 25, 2017 in World News
Surprise: Bay Area Restaurants Disappear After Minimum Wage Hike
by Joel B. Pollak Restaurants are rapidly going out of business in the Bay Area, after San Francisco passed a $15 minimum wage law in 2014 and the State of California followed suit in 2016. Yet the media are struggling to make the connection between high minimum wages and restaurant closures. The East Bay Times, for example, asked Tuesday: “What’s behind the spate of recent Bay Area restaurant closures?” It barely mentioned new minimum wage laws, brushing them aside as if they were largely insignificant. It is true, of course, that merely because one thing follows another does not prove that the… View Article
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