Claim: raising the minimum wage does not most minimum wage employees reason: many small businesses cannot afford high minimum wage payments and will reduce their number of employees. which type of evidence would best support this claim and reason?

Companies will have to raise prices in order to be able to pay employees, which would mean consumers would buy less, meaning that more employees would have to get laid off, and so on, and so on.

Evidence from case studies carried on small business who had no other choice than to lay off workers due to increases in minimum wage.

Explanation:

Evidence refers to pieces of information or fact that show that a statement or belief is true.

A case study refers to a research carried out to examine and obtain evidence about particular organisation, person, development or situation over a specific time period.

Therefore, the best evidence to support the claim that small businesses cannot afford high minimum wage payments and will reduce their number of employees is evidence from case studies carried on small business who had no other choice than to lay off workers due to increases in minimum wage.

The reason this is the best is that evidence from the case studies is based on facts that cannot be disputed.

i think its c but i'm not