Job loss predictions over rising minimum wages haven't come true
How many of the people arguing for keeping the minimum wage unchanged were arguing that in good faith?<p>In general, increasing pay into people at the bottom of the ladder has a much bigger economic effect than the opposite. Reasonable increases in the minimum wage, particularly ones that track inflation and cost of living are not going to harm the economy.<p>As many have pointed out, the minimum wage in many places has been eroded for years by inflation, so increasing it is really just making up for a lack of indexing on it.<p>The best solution appears to be to raise the minimum wage to a level that can support a person without government assistance and index it for inflation.<p>The reality for us every-day workers is that either the minimum wage is increased or we&#x27;ll have to make up for it in taxes that support programs to compensate for the lack of a liveable wage.<p>We are much more likely to get a better deal via the minimum age than we are via the tax system; the latter of which is heavily skewed in favor of the wealthy and corporations. It&#x27;s not big corporations paying non-liveable wages who will be paying to cover food stamps.