Does raising the minimum wage reduce the number of low-wage jobs?

No.

"We also find no evidence of disemployment when we consider higher levels of minimum wages."

https://t.co/vlgagEHeyy

Minimum wage increases reduce crime.

https://t.co/1G1clXqF9t
When you increase the minimum wage, you decrease infant mortality among poor families.

https://t.co/iwW1FDsLYG
Increasing the minimum wage improves kids' health.

https://t.co/66DLHERpOJ
The minimum wage reduces racial income inequality.

https://t.co/wkn9Ajotlx
“We find that raising the minimum wage increases earnings growth at the bottom of the distribution, and those effects persist and indeed grow in magnitude over several years.”

https://t.co/bYuxhaieN4
https://t.co/1L8Hh6OqmX
"Overall the most up to date body of research from US, UK and other developed countries points to a very muted effect of minimum wages on employment...Importantly, this was
found to be the case even for the most recent ambitious policies."

https://t.co/SISetZLMMX
"This [meta-analysis] finds no statistically significant aggregate adverse employment effect of the national minimum wage [in the U.K.] and also no publication bias in the minimum wage literature."

https://t.co/Pw3t94wXZd

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