Granted, most #smallbiz will strughgle or fail if the increase comes too quickly, but when someone pays $2,000,000 for the right to buy and operate a Gree-C Burger franchise, they have the resources to pay their employees more than $7 per hour.
US Census Bureau: Celebrate "Manufacturing Day":{https://www.census.gov/mfgday} ... this page links major census numbers about manufacturing and its impact on the economy.
Three #Amazon employees who were publicly critical of the company’s treatment of employees during the #COVID-19 outbreak have been fired.
Also, the #SBA expects the full !smallbiz support fund to be committed by Thursday (2020-04-16). Hopefully President #Trump and #Congress can get their acts together to add more to the pot.
Thread on #Twitter about the quarantine’s impact on !smallbiz (and therefore, on their owners, managers, employees, suppliers, customers). A lot of people in the #Fediverse don’t seem to understand that when the restaurants close, those employees, who already struggle to stay afloat, are left with nothing.