Hiring is cheaper, ever hear of H1B's?
Uh, yeah, lots of companies spend money on lawyers to pay minimum wage to H1Bs.
Suuuuuuuuure.
And H1B's don't represent more people hired. The data shows that companies use H1B's to replace existing employees.
So, you don't improve employment but you do reduce the demand. Congratulations, welcome to a downward spiral.
Because it doesn't matter? All of the data from minimum wage increases indicates that employers are not employee constrained, they are demand constrained.
So, minimum wages increases bump demand significantly while hurting employment weakly (if it all).