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A minimum wage increase has never resulted in a proportionate rise in prices or in mass amounts of layoffs. Period. The minimum wage needs to catch up, simple as that. What is it now? $5.50 per hour? Do we really want to demand that people work at that level, ESPECIALLY when we in the US are moving to a largely bifrocated society with the "high income" earners on one end and the "low income" earners on the other? You may not have noticed, but our middle wage jobs are leaving -- seamster industry has left, no real steel work anymore, companies by the dozen outsourcing tech support to India. All we really have left are high income and low income jobs. The service industry, which accounts for more than half of the jobs in cities like Chicago, gets truly brutalized.
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