From the Lowell Sun:
An interesting statistic in this debate comes from a Boston Globe story that quoted David Neumark, an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine and co-author of the book Minimum Wages. He concluded that when minimum wages increased, some low-wage workers lost money from reduced hours. He also said about 33 percent of minimum-wage workers are in families earning more than $55,000 a year, which puts them in the top 50 percent of income distribution nationally. "Most families are poor because they have no workers, not because they have low-wage workers," Neumark told The Globe.

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