From The Daily Beast:
Research by economists David Neumark of the University of California, Irvine, William Wascher of the Federal Reserve Board, and Mark Schweitzer of the Cleveland Fed shows that minimum wage policies can increase poverty, so poverty reduction certainly shouldn’t be expected as a benefit of raising the minimum wage.
 
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