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Starting today, many fast-food workers in California will be paid $20 an hour under a new minimum-wage law. It’s time for a Kimberly rant! We’ll get into the subsidization of low-wage work, the reals costs behind all the stuff we buy \u2014 from burgers to clothes \u2014 and who’s picking up the tab. Plus, guest host Reema Khrais reminisces about the early years of Google as the company celebrates 20 years of Gmail.

Here\u2019s everything we talked about today:

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  • “California\u2019s Fast-Food Workers Just Got a Pay Bump” from The New York Times
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  • “California\u2019s Crazy \u2018Fast Food\u2019 Minimum Wage Takes Effect” from The Wall Street Journal
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  • “Your hair looks gorgeous. It cost … what?!” from The Washington Post
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  • “Hey, Gen X, Z and millennials: the great wealth transfer could go to health care, not you”\xa0from USA Today
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  • “Ancient giant dolphin discovered in the Amazon” from CNN
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  • “Gmail revolutionized email 20 years ago. People thought it was Google’s April Fools’ Day joke” from The Associated Press
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