On Wednesday, KPCC's Take Two published an interview with a small business owner named Darryl Lima, president of DJL Audio Video Specialist in San Dimas, California, and the immense difficulties he experienced when he increased his minimum wage from $12 to $14 an hour in 2012.

"It simply made it much harder to make payroll these days," said Lima, "especially since we did not anticipate how much our tax burden would increase along with the wages."

When asked if employees were happy with the change and whether or not it increased their performance, Lima had little optimism to share.

"Employees were happy for about one week," said Lima. "After that, the talk went right back to how hard it is to make ends meet in the California economy. Everybody's broke all the time. New employees are still asking for cash under the table so they can continue to get any benefits they are collecting. When we refuse, most refuse the job and move on."

Lima's decision to raise the minimum wage was voluntary.