From the San Jose Mercury News:
This week, a bill from Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Salinas, to raise the state minimum wage to $9.25 will receive a hearing in the Legislature's Labor and Employment Committee. His proposal, like a federal $10.10 minimum wage bill promoted on these pages recently by Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez, would index the minimum wage to rise with inflation. It's a policy that's more than just unnecessary. It would actively harm entry-level and less-experienced job seekers… This drop in opportunities for young people isn't just anecdotal. It's been measured empirically. UC Irvine economist David Neumark recently teamed up with Federal Reserve economist William Wascher to summarize the research on the minimum wage from the last two decades. They found that 85 percent of the most credible studies pointed to job loss for less-experienced teens following a wage hike.

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