From NBC News:
David Neumark, visiting scholar at the San Francisco Fed, contends in the paper that raising the minimum wage has only limited benefits in the war against poverty, due in part because relatively few of those falling below the poverty line actually receive the wage. … Neumark is a professor of economics and director of the Center for Economics and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine.

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