From The Wall Street Journal:
A comprehensive review of scholarship in 2006-07 by economists David Neumark of the University of California, Irvine and William Wascher of the Federal Reserve found that 85% of "the most credible evidence" shows that wage mandates affect job seekers negatively. Their findings were later expanded on in their 2010 book "Minimum Wages," published by MIT Press.

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