From the Sac Bee:
In a survey of more than 220 affected businesses in Oakland, my organization found that 30 percent had reduced employee hours, and nearly one in five had cut staffing levels. … These consequences are consistent with the majority of the empirical research on this subject, as summarized by economists David Neumark of UC Irvine and William Wascher of the Federal Reserve Board.

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