After Washington, D.C.’s minimum wage rose to $10.50 an hour in July 2015, growth in restaurant jobs failed to keep up with the quick pace of growth it carried during the economic recovery.

As pointed out by Mark Perry, a scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, D.C.’s restaurant sector lost more jobs from January 2016 through July than in any other six-month period since the 2001 recession.

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