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FYI, large minimum wage increases in the San Francisco Bay Area in the last few years have been accompanied by drops in unemployment.


But of course, San Francisco is hardly a good representative of the state. What happens when the Dairy Queen in Fresno is required to pay the local teenagers $15 an hour, or around $30K a year, to sell ice-cream cones? My guess is that there's going to be one less Dairy Queen in California and those teenagers will be out of a job.


Has the size of the minimum wage worker pool decreased as well? That area is pushing out the non-high-income.


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