Since 2014, the minimum wage has risen 21 percent. Meanwhile, unemployment in San Francisco County has dropped from 5 percent to 2.9 percent. In the same period, the labor force has grown from 522,300 to 549,800. “There are trade-offs,” said David Neumark, economics professor and director of the Economic Self-Sufficiency Policy Research Institute at UC Irvine.

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