Opponents love to claim that raising the minimum wage will drive businesses elsewhere, but the evidence suggests otherwise.
A study at the University of California at Berkeley compared hundreds of pairs of adjacent counties in states with differing minimum wage rates and concluded that a higher minimum wage didn’t significantly affect employment.
“We found in these cross-border comparisons that employment did not decline on the higher wage side of the border,” said Michael Reich, one of three authors.
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