Robert ReichThinkers

The Minimum wage is intended to be a minimum 'living wage', which it isn't, because it has not stayed even with inflation.

The Minimum wage should be raised because, given that most low-wage workers aren't young teenagers, but breadwinners for families, current minimum wage is insufficient in lifting families out of poverty.

The Minimum wage should be raised given that, at present, corporations lean on government funded programs such as medicaid, food-stamps, etc, which allow them to pay such low wages.

The Minimum wage should be raised because it would stimulate the economy and create jobs by putting money in the pockets of millions of low-wage workers who will spend it.

The Minimum wage is unlikely to result in higher prices because most businesses directly affected by it are in intense competition for consumers, and will take the raise out of profits rather than raise their prices.

The Minimum wage should be raised because the higher minimum will attract more workers into the job market, employers will have more choice of whom to hire, and thereby have more reliable employees ' resulting in lower turnover costs and higher productivity.

The Minimum wage is, at a time in our history when 95 percent of all economic gains are going to the top 1 percent, not just smart economics and good politics when rased to $15. It's also the morally right thing to do.