SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – On today’s edition of Rob Black’s Winners and Losers, our financial expert Rob Black and KRON 4’s James Fletcher to talk about California’s new $15 minimum wage.
The plan to increase California’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022 has opened the biggest fault lines yet between advocates of higher pay and critics who say it kills jobs and raises prices for consumers. Opponents say it will force employers to replace workers with technology and sow particular hardship in a diverse California economy that includes many rural and distressed areas whose businesses can’t afford such a lofty base wage.
Burger King is taking another foray into colored buns with the launch of its new “angriest Whoppersandwich,” which comes on a red bun. The fast-food giant will offer the burger, which has hot sauce baked into it’s “fiery red bun,” for a limited time at some restaurants