Minimum wage hikes don't increase prices, it just never happens in reality anywhere across the world. The people who forward these arguments are (shock horror) big businesses who'd have their immense profits curtailed slightly.
I'm from the UK and that was the argument brought against the minimum wage in the 90s but in the end nothing happened except peoples living standards rose. Same in Austrailia except they have an even higher minimum wage than us, i think it's $18 an hour.
It all comes down to what you think is ethical, If you work full time (so 35 hours a week) you should, I think, be able to live a stress free life, not have to worry about health bills or rent, food, childcare costs etc BECAUSE you work most of your waking hours. (Remember we work to live not live to work).
Let's not forget, it's known abroad that in the USA up until the 1960s a working man (because women didnt work much back then) on the minimum wage could provide for his wife and one child, now days that's a distant dream.
FFS the USA is one of only three countries in the world that don't offer women paid maternity leave, from the outside looking in it's disgusting :( Americans need to stand up for their rights.
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