Stephon Harris makes $16.35 an hour at the Rancho San Miguel Market, ringing customers up for pints of fresh salsas and masa. A few hundred feet away, at a Jack in the Box drive-through, workers are making about $4 more an hour thanks to California’s mandatory $20 minimum wage for fast-food employees that kicked in last month. "I would like to make that," Harris, 21, said as he assisted customers. He is among California's low-wage workers who are left out of sector-specific minimum wages...
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Walmart’s grocery business is reportedly benefiting from the high price of fast food. The retailer’s chief financial officer, John David Rainey, told CNBC Thursday (May 16) that it’s “roughly 4.3 times more expensive” to buy a meal at a quick-service restaurant (QSR) than it is to purchase the ingredients needed to make a meal at home. “And that’s […]
It was a late March morning and dozens of women and men descended on a San Joaquin Valley asparagus farm — one of the last in the state. The workers walked along the furrows, cutting the newly sprouted spears at precisely nine inches, a market standard. Later that day, farmer Aaron Barcellos surveyed the land peppered with the perennial that for many announces the arrival of spring. He is one of the last producers standing in California, a fourth-generation farmer who co-owns A-Bar Ag...
Although millions of Americans continue to turn to fast food to feed their families, some fast-food giants are struggling to keep their doors open. Burger King recently announced that it has plans to shut down as many as four hundred locations by the end of the year. The iconic burger chain that has been in […]
As the debate about the national minimum wage heats up, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz has aired support for a gradual increase to €15 per hour.
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Organised Labour yesterday shunned a meeting of the Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage, NMW, over what it described as government’s insulting proposal of N48,000.
Customers across incomes are looking for cheaper meals, Walmart's chief financial officer said.
Prices have jumped up on nearly everything -- from gas, to clothing and even to fast food. People are fed up with these prices and are taking to social media to sound off about how much they’re paying.