Small town with say, 5000 workers. Lets say a $4 an hour raise which is 160 per week, (assuming full time). We will also guess that at least $120 of this will be spent.That is $600,000 a week more injected into that small community PER WEEK. OK, so lets guess that only half of that goes into the economy. THAT IS STILL $300,000 a week, or $15.6 million dollars a year. Something wrong with that? Do the math. CEO's hoard the money, working poor spend it. Stop drinking the right wing, CEO backing koolaid and do the math. 15 mil in a small community per year ain't peanuts.