The results published in Economic Roundtable’s study reveal 10,120 fast food workers in California are unhoused despite wages steadily increasing in recent years.
The study further found that
’s frontline fast food workers such as cooks and cashiers earned a median income of $14,949 in 2020. Most of them were working part-time, receiving 26 hours per week on average, according to the study.The State Senate has passed the fast food workers rights bill, much to the relief of employees FOX 11's Hal Eisner spoke with.are spending more than half their income on rent, researchers found, and 43% are living in overcrowded housing, defined as households with more than one person per room.
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