Here’s How the Price of Your Favorite Fast Food Would Change With a $15 Minimum Wage
9/5/14, 10:02 AM
ECONOMY NEWS
Here’s How the Price of Your Favorite Fast Food
Would Change With a $15 Minimum Wage
Melissa Quinn / @MelissaQuinn97 / Kelsey Harris / @KelsRenHar / September 04, 2014
Thousands of fast-food workers across 150 cities nationwide gathered today to call for a
$15-an-hour minimum wage.
However, a report released today by James Sherk, senior policy analyst in labor economics
at The Heritage Foundation, found that fast-food restaurants would have to boost their
prices 38 percent to make up for the increased labor costs.
>>> Higher Fast-Food Wages: Higher Fast-Food Prices
Such an increase, Sherk said, would drive away about one-third of these restaurants’
customers.
If fast food’s biggest restaurants decide to raise their wages to $15 an hour, here’s how
some of your favorite meals would fare.
http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/04/wage-hike-fast-food-prices-infog…KKylMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DTcBkI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D
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@MelissaQuinn97
Melissa Quinn
Melissa Quinn is a news reporter for The Daily Signal.
@KelsRenHar
Kelsey Harris
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Kelsey Harris is the visual editor at The Daily Signal and digital media associate at The
Heritage Foundation.
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