If it's a Democrat-controlled state, then the INTENDED consequence is to ensure that minorities stay on welfare rather than get a job.
If anyone makes the connection their excuse will be they were unintentional. “Hey, we were really trying to do good.”
Correct. This is just a way of providing more money up the welfare state, since it’ll be easier to cut a check for a $1 per hour per employee than eat the costs of raising those employees’ pay to $15 per hour.
Those costs will either be passed along to consumers, or taken out of payroll by reducing staff. Or a combination of both.