published Aug 22, 2017, 6:00:13 AM, by Noah Smith (Bloomberg View) —David Neumark, an economist at the University of California-Irvine, could safely be called a minimum-wage skeptic. Neumark has written a number of papers on the topic, all of which have found that minimum wages reduce employment by substantial amounts.

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