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Home / Policy & Research / Economic Trends & Policy / Labor Market & Workforce / Comments Provided to the New York Fast Food Wage Board

Comments Provided to the New York Fast Food Wage Board

June 5, 2015 |

by Fiscal Policy Institute

June 1, 2015. FPI played an important role in the efforts to convince the New York Fast Food Wage Board in June and July 2015 to recommend a $15 wage floor for 136,000 workers in large fast-food chains. FPI materials include the following:

Testimony at the Buffalo hearing of the Fast Food Wage Board, June 5, 2015

Supplemental comments to the Fast Food Wage Board, June 26, 2015

Op-ed, “Boosting the Wages of Fast-Food Workers Will Help the Economy,” in the July 20, 2015 Albany Times Union

Table showing faster growth in fast-food employment in all parts of New York State (Upstate, Downstate suburbs, New York City) than at the national level, 2007-2014

Published On: June 5th, 2015Categories: Economic Trends & Policy, Labor Market & Workforce, Letters, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Testimony

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Comments Provided to the New York Fast Food Wage Board

June 5, 2015 |

by Fiscal Policy Institute

June 1, 2015. FPI played an important role in the efforts to convince the New York Fast Food Wage Board in June and July 2015 to recommend a $15 wage floor for 136,000 workers in large fast-food chains. FPI materials include the following:

Testimony at the Buffalo hearing of the Fast Food Wage Board, June 5, 2015

Supplemental comments to the Fast Food Wage Board, June 26, 2015

Op-ed, “Boosting the Wages of Fast-Food Workers Will Help the Economy,” in the July 20, 2015 Albany Times Union

Table showing faster growth in fast-food employment in all parts of New York State (Upstate, Downstate suburbs, New York City) than at the national level, 2007-2014

Published On: June 5th, 2015Categories: Economic Trends & Policy, Labor Market & Workforce, Letters, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Testimony

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