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Ruben Navarrette : Fast-food industry has been wringing its hands over impact on its business from California 's new minimum wage law.
He says a full-page ad recently placed in USA Today by the California Business and Industrial Alliance claimed 10,000 fast-food jobs had been lost in the state since Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the law in September .
But he says the claim is baloney, sliced thick; employment in California has gone up from September through January , the period covered by the ad.
Ruben Navarrette : California fast-food industry group CABIA cites Wall Street Journal as source for claim of job loss.
He says it's wrong to say there were 9,570 jobs lost from September through January .
He notes a pattern in California 's fast food industry peaks into September and then slumps through January , but that's not true.
The Wall Street Journal article used non-seasonally adjusted figures when the adjusted figures were more appropriate.
Fast-food companies already have instituted sizable price increases to cover their higher expenses.
The author of the article, Heather Haddon , didn't reply to my inquiry about why she appeared to use the figures differently.
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