From the NYT:
Among other things, the higher wages may prompt employers to eliminate the least-skilled workers. Also, many minimum-wage workers aren't poor – many are teenagers who eventually get better jobs – while "most poor families have no workers at all," argued David Neumark, director of the, Center for Economics & Public Policy at University of California, Irvine.

For the full story, please visit http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/05/20/us/ap-us-los-angeles-minimum-wage.html?_r=0.