There is no industry too large and no job too small that California Democrats can’t manage to destroy with destructive micromanaging.

A study from the National Bureau of Economic Research analyzed the effects of California’s fast food minimum wage hike, which increased the industry’s minimum wage to $20 per hour (and can continue increasing it over the next several years). The researchers’ “median estimate” for how many jobs were lost because of this increase was 18,000, meaning that California’s fast food industry would have suffered a 3.2% decline compared to other states. California’s fast food industry previously had a similar jobs trajectory as other states, whose employment has slightly increased in the time that California’s has notably decreased.