The minimum wage movement is part of that race to the bottom, not a bulwark against it. Don’t forget the real worth of the currency (controlled by the government since 1913) versus all these calls for more government “help”.
I’ll repeat myself. If we had a closed labor market so that our labor didn’t have to compete with invader labor, legal and illegal, wages would go up in a normal way....supply and demand. Another factor that would support living wages would be if manufacturers couldn’t ship jobs overseas when the product could be produced in the US. Supply and demand curves don’t work without a defined universal set.