Soapweed is right again. If raising the minimum wage has no ill effect, then let's mandate prosperity for all of ys with a a424/hr minimum wage. Every invrease in minimum wage displaces employment, and its the least able to find another job that are excluded. Furthermore, an arbitrily increased minimum wage will push jobs overseas.

Minimum wage is an apprentice wage, but employees proven fit for industry never work for minimum wage. So let's let the market decide and stay the hell out of it with politics. The economics are simple.