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California’s $20 Minimum Wage Set to Increase Fast Food Prices
Published: Apr 7, 2024 by Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead In Small Business News 1Most fast-food workers in California will now be paid at least $20 an hour due to a new law that went into effect on April 1.It is aimed at giving greater financial security to employees in the historically low paid fast food industry. However
California’s Crypto Regulation: Will It Push Firms Out?
Source: AdobeStock / Maksym YemelyanovCalifornia has signed the Digital Financial Assets Law, raising concerns within the industry regarding the potential consequences of this legislation.On Friday, Governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law, aiming to regulate California’s cryptocurrency industry, which is home to nearly a quarter of the blockchain companies in North America.The move is similar to New York’s controversial BitLicense
California’s Medical Misinformation Law Facing Legal Challenges
Special Reports > Features — A federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement for plaintiffs in two cases by Jennifer Henderson, Enterprise & Investigative Writer, MedPage Today February 3, 2023 Late last month, a federal judge in California granted a preliminary injunction in a pair of related lawsuits filed in opposition to the state's new medical misinformation
Want to help California’s kelp forests? Eat sea urchins.
ByKristen PopePublished July 20, 2022• 11 min readLooking out over the Pacific Ocean, diners at the Harbor House Inn’s bluff-top restaurant in Elk, California, are accustomed to finding locally harvested seafood on their plates. But one ingredient plucked from the waters below makes more than a delicious meal. Eating purple sea urchins when they’re available…
California’s net neutrality law dodges Big Telecom bullet
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a lower court's refusal to block California's net neutrality law (SB 822), affirming that state laws can regulate internet connectivity where federal law has gone silent. The decision is a blow to the large internet service providers that challenged California's regulations, which prohibit network practices…
Covered California’s Insurance Deals Range From ‘No-Brainer’ to Sticker Shock
If you purchase your own health insurance, it’s time to choose your coverage for 2022. If you buy it through Covered California, the chances are better than ever that you will get a big discount on your monthly premium — or pay no premium at all. Many middle-class families who previously paid full fare for…
Oct. 4, 2021Clean-up contractors deploy skimmers and floating barriers known as booms to try to stop further oil crude incursion into the Talbert Marsh wetlands in Huntington Beach, Calif., Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021.Ringo H.W. Chiu/Associated PressApproximately 126,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into the ocean and washed onto the sands of Orange County beaches 30…