{"id":124086,"date":"2026-01-07T20:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/124086\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T20:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:24:18","slug":"local-expert-weighs-in-on-economic-impact-of-rising-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/124086\/","title":{"rendered":"Local expert weighs in on economic impact of rising minimum wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Minimum wage has risen in many states as we begin the new year.<\/p>\n<p>Increasing minimum wage is highly debated with supporters believing a higher income helps workers afford basic living costs.<\/p>\n<p>Critics argue higher wages may cause the cost of living to increase or result in job losses as employers can no longer affording to pay their employees. <\/p>\n<p>California State University Bakersfield Associate Professor of Economics Richard Gearhart joined ARC Bakersfield to share his insight into how this will impact the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Minimum wage has risen in many states as we begin the new year. Increasing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-124086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}