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Gavin Newsom signs law boosting minimum wage for fast-food workers. Is $20 enough?

  • Bias Rating

    -8% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -12% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -7% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Pozos said she still hopes her workplace, and the fast food industry in general, will one day be unionized, so workers gain power over schedules and working conditions and can fight workplace retaliation and wage theft.
25% : Assemblymember Chris Holden, a Democrat from Pasadena who authored the original and compromise legislation, thanked franchise owners for their willingness to negotiate a deal and the workers who advocated for the law.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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