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LOS ANGELES, CALIF - Approximately 10,000 jobs have reportedly been slashed at California fast food eateries after the minimum wage was hiked to $20.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) law to pay workers $20 an hour went into effect on April 1 and has apparently taken a devastating toll on the industry, Fox Business reported Wednesday.
The outlet continued: The California Business and Industrial Alliance (CABIA) said nearly 10,000 jobs have been cut across fast food restaurants since Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 1228 into law last year. To highlight what it says are the unintended consequences of the law, CABIA has taken out an ad in Thursday’s statewide edition of USA Today with mock “obituaries” of popular fast food brands
CABIA’s ad highlights multiple restaurants that have had to raise prices and lay off workers to stay afloat and, in some cases, shut down stores. The ad features news clips documenting changes made by brands like El Pollo Loco, Subway and Burger King across the state. Click here to read more.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN - A Minnesota school district overwhelmingly rejected an offer to erect a stone monument engraved with the Ten Commandments on school property.
The unanimous decision was made after the Freedom From Religion Foundation fired off a threatening letter to the Park Rapids School District. The FFRF has a long history of waging war on Christianity within public school classrooms.
They are easily triggered by the name of Jesus Christ and the presence of Holy Bibles.
Former board member Dennis Dodge had offered to donate the stone monument to the district. However, the FFRF accused the biblical display of being “religious hectoring.”
For Dodge, the Ten Commandments are a symbol of ethics, high morals, and respect.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Moms for Liberty is calling for all public high school graduates across the country be required to take a U.S. Citizenship test in order to graduate high school.
Moms for Liberty National Co-Founder Tiffany Justice told Florida’s Voice each chapter of Moms for Liberty has a legislative committee who sends a liaison to their state legislative committee where members come together to discuss what they’d like to see happen in their state.
Moms for Liberty’s call for the citizenship test requirement is first being introduced in North Carolina as the state is heading into its legislative session, where the legislation for a civics requirement will be discussed. The legislation would require students to pass a U.S. citizenship test in order to graduate high school. Click here to read more.
LANSING, Mich - In 2018, Gretchen Whitmer laid out a “water plan” that aimed to “protect Michigan’s drinking water” from commercial withdraws.
Whitmer targeted Nestle, which was “abusing our water here in Michigan,” she said, by withdrawing about 360,000 gallons per day to bottle and sell through its Ice Mountain brand.
“When it comes to Nestle, I don’t believe that they should be taking the water out of our ground and selling it, and I want to stop that,” Whitmer said during a gubernatorial debate in October 2018.
Six years later, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is currently promoting a “winning investment” for taxpayers in Big Rapids, where Chinese Communist Party-linked battery component manufacturer Gotion plans to withdrawal about 715,000 gallons of groundwater per day to feed the electric vehicle industry. Click here to read more.
WALES - An Englishman has been reunited with a family cat who had been lost for 12 years.
Theo-Will McKenna, then just 17 years old, was attending university near the family’s home in Connah’s Quay, Wales when their cat Artie got out and never came home.
McKenna remembers staying out for hours with a bag of treats but couldn’t locate their beloved white and grey cat. McKenna would visit once a week for months to look some more, but gradually lost hope of ever seeing Artie again.
“I reached the point where I thought that either, God forbid, something had happened to him, or someone else [had] taken him in,” he said.
Then in 2024, residents of a home in Connah’s Quay called a local veterinarian after a grey and white cat appeared in their backyard one day, and stayed put for four days straight. Click here to read more.
