From the OC Register:
A team of economists from the Federal Reserve and the University of California, Irvine studied the experience of poor families before and after an increase in the minimum wage. Their findings deserve attention. Those who received a bump in hourly pay and kept their jobs were better off. Yet those who lost hours at work found themselves with less take-home pay even though their hourly wage was higher. Others even lost their jobs entirely. Overall, the economists found that the "losers" from a higher minimum wage outnumbered the "winners" On net, a wage hike can actually make the poor worse off.

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