From the LA Times:
David Neumark, director of the Center for Economics & Public Policy at UC Irvine, has consistently found correlations between higher minimum wages and declines in employment by comparing states with differing minimum wage laws. He agrees that there may be lower turnover after raising wages, but argues that "there's no evidence it fully offsets for the price increase."

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