>>I do have a question for you and Marcia - do you think the minimum wage should be increased or not?
Check out this January 2015 paper re increasing minimum wage for burger flippers to $15 without job losses:
http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/working_papers/working_papers_351-400/WP373.pdfFWIW, minimum wage was $16.87/hr in Australia last year (with a 25% uplift for casual/zero-hour workers) and the sky hasn't fallen.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
