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The new minimum wage for fast food workers in California took effect on April 1.

Giving the state control over insurance rates turned pricing into a Byzantine regulatory process.

Hiking wages through law is a crowd-pleaser, but it kills employment unless you’re a robot.

Welcome to the Friday, March 29, Brew. 

California Proposition 1 was approved by a vote of 50.19% to 49.81%—a 0.38% marginas of March 26 with more than 95% of the vote accounted for. Fifteen days after the election, the Associated Press called Proposition 1 as approved. Proposition 1 joins 16 other California statewide measures decided by a…

The forthcoming law will award fast-food workers a 25 percent hourly raise, increasing their pay by four dollars

Counties must spend about two-thirds of the money from a tax enacted for mental health services on housing and programs for homeless people with serious mental illnesses or substance abuse problems.

Measure, a win for governor but criticized by disability rights advocates, will raise $6.4bn for housing and treatment facilities

The Audi Q6 is such an important new EV that it may borrow production space from the new Scout factory in South Carolina.

California's new -per-hour minimum wage law for fast food workers faces controversy over a bakery exemption, raising concerns of favoritism and transpar...

It is one of the state’s greatest health needs, companies fail to live up to their policies, and the state does not invest what is needed for enforcement.