We are never to old to be able to research on line something like this yourself.
Regardless, I don't care. This is a political issue as well as an economic one.
If nobody is making min wage then Republicans get behind codifying the $12/hr and stop looking like Simon Legree.
Those questions need to be answered even for the political domain. The Simon Legree argument is abstract. Abstract arguments are what got us Great Society, Obamacare, etc. When the abstract arguments met up with reality it turns out that reality wins.