More on the Minimum Wage

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Most of my life the argument Conservatives, and indeed even some Democrats, is that raising the minimum wage takes money from companies which prevents them from increasing employment (if only a bit). In today's economy that has to be counterbalanced against the fact the minimum wage, or more appropriately household incomes, haven't been going up very fast for a very long time. This isn't the 1960s or 1970s when household incomes were already going up pretty quickly. Today household incomes are flat, people work with less than full-time and thus have fewer benefits and both adults in a family of four generally work to earn the income one person earned in 1979. I know that for a summer I worked at a local glass plant I earned $ 15 / hour in the 1970s. That was a long time ago and today my niece earns just over $ 10 / hour with less than 40 hours / week. Something is wrong.

http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rediscovering-government/debunking-minimum-wage-myth-higher-wages-will-not-reduce-jobs

http://www.upworthy.com/one-fact-about-raising-the-minimum-wage-is-so-unbelievable-i-had-to-fact-check-it-like-5-times?c=tkp1

Let's renew the American Dream for everyone, not just the 0.1 % who are super-rich.