I’d just add that we have some interesting economic studies that looked at the job situation in neighboring states after one of them increased its minimum wage. They found no job losses in the states with minimum wage increases. In some cases, job growth in these states was higher.

Other studies have looked at the impact of minimum wages on small businesses. They found greater growth –both in the number of these business and in the number of workers they employed –in states that had increase their minimum wages above the federal than in those that hadn’t.

It should go without saying that more take-home pay for low-wage workers is good for the economy. Also that recessions cause job losses, not the other way around.

Yes, there are other factors to the recession, but a major contributor has always been raising the minimum wage. So, yeah, lets raise it and see if we can push unemployment up to 50 percent. Brilliant.

Minimum wage was never meant to be a means to support a family. Yet liberals never can see that point. They destroy the economy then look to do it again, double down on failed policies. Markets can and do set a fair wage scale. Government never has.