You can't get a raise if you don't have a job?

If one doesn't get enough of a wage to live, they than become eligible for assistance, giving what most followers of this page a reason to complain. It's common sense that if minimum wage is forty percent below the poverty level.... It WILL only allow you to live in poverty. If the corporations can afford to pay a 400% difference to their CEO's and they can't afford to pay their backbone employee's at least 15.00 an hour... This is the problem with our society, people are dumb enough to buy into the left and right saga...

Silly me thought it had something to do with the housing bubble bursting and an unregulated wall st crippling the economy. I think a lot of people make a mistake of saying "This ONE thing is what's caused this big problem!" It certainly contributed, but life is never quite as simple in the real world as it is in theory.

Minimum wage is something business owners must pay their employees. Business owners themselves only make so much money. If the minimum wage rises too much (which is very easy to do), business owners are forced to cut down on how many employees they have, because they simply can not afford as many as they actually need.
But also, yeah, it's not the number one cause of unemployment, and nothing is quite as simple as everyone makes it out to be.

Jackson Kerr

Every time the minimum wage is increased, the prices of everything go up. Check it out for yourself. And those at the bottom of the wage earning class have to pay the piper. Unions started it, and it was good at the beginning, then everyone got greedy, and wanted more, but do you see anyone having a better life because of the wage increases? No, because they are paying more for the products they buy, right?

Some entry level jobs are only economically worth minimum wage. To force businesses to pay more only increases costs to consumers, which either harms the economy, or the business (in fewer sales). If a hamburger starts pushing $8, people will stop buying them. And most, but I agree not all, people move up the ladder, only getting minimum wage for a small amount of time. High school and college students looking for part time jobs will never get them if they are priced out of the market. Eventually many of these jobs would be outsourced (some already are as drive thrus at some fast food places are handled by call centers in India) or automated, thus making entry jobs disappear, and harming most those who need them.