>>Obama wants to raise the minimum wage - the republicans do not. I think that pretty much sums up things as far as "policies" on this matter. Based on what I've seen I'd say it's obvious who's not standing up for the poor. Take a look at the voting records to remove any doubt.
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>>You really think that raising the minimum wage is going to help the poor? It is going to cause minimum wage jobs to be lost.
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>Not true: A review of 64 studies on minimum wage increases found no discernable effect on employment. Additionally, more than 600 economists, seven of them Nobel Prize winners in economics, have signed onto a letter in support of raising the minimum wage to $10.10 by 2016.

You don't need a Nobel prize to defuse that argument.
When the minimum wage law was passed in 1938, it was $.25.
Following that logic, given all the increases since then, there should be no minimum wage jobs at all.
There must be some, or why would so many people be fighting the increase?