In December 2015, the University of California, Irvine economist David Neumark undertook a comprehensive review of minimum wage studies for the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank. He concluded that "current minimum wages have directly reduced the number of jobs nationally by about 100,000 to 200,000" from what they would otherwise have been.

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