When someone says “minimum wage,” what comes to mind? Do you
think of teenagers flipping burgers? Or a single parent trying
to feed several kids? While President Obama and other proponents
of a higher minimum wage want you to visualize that single
parent, the truth is that a burger-flipping teenager or college
student with a part-time job paints a much more accurate picture
of the minimum wage in America. In his State of the Union
address, President Obama called for an increase in the minimum
wage from $7.25 to $9 an hour. Today, Democrats in Congress are
arguing that the President didn’t go far enough, proposing an
increase to more than $10 an hour. Minimum-wage increases reduce
the number of entry-level minimum-wage jobs available—actually
hurting many of the workers proponents want to help. And who are
these workers? The President and others keep going back to five
key myths about minimum-wage workers. Heritage labor expert
James Sherk has already debunked them all. Myth #1: Hordes of
Minimum-Wage Workers