Anyone who runs a business knows: Raising minimum wage will force small businesses to reduce staff. Especially teenagers who need part time work.

This does not mean assholes who exploit workers should not be deported. They should.

Supply and Demand ::: stop immigration: including h1 visas, AND delete the laws requiring temp immigrant workers pick crops in CA.... These are real laws supporting slave labor.

It would even be good for the oligarchs, but they are so damed myopic, they can't see beyond today's profit report.

Wal-Mart HR instructs and helps their employees apply for entitlement programs everyday. This is to supplement a minimum wage that's not a living wage.

1831: Silk industry workers in Lyon, France go on strike. Their demands include a minimum wage that is enough for them to live on.

That’s where the struggle for a living wage started. Source: a search on “minimum wage in america: a timeline”. Article ;by Patrick Kiger at History.com