Great point. The facts bear out what I'm saying if the OP chooses to look at them. Another is to look at youth unemployment before and after minimum wage. Nobody wants to hire a teenager for 11/hour. They don't want to hire a person with a disability because American's With Disabilities Act-- it's too easy to be sued. Hiring woman and black people is similarly risky because they can sue you for firing them unless you spend months documenting multiple transgressions. All of this regulation hurts the people it's meant to help.