[Sooth2222]

"Adjusted for inflation $15.00 would be equivalent to $2.00 in 1965. High, but not earth shattering."

Adjusted for inflation, $15 is still an all-time high. Meanwhile, we're importing millions of unskilled workers from abroad, so there is effectively an infinite supply, or at least a supply that dwarfs demand. A $15 national minimum wage is truly a prescription for disaster. (As we will see demonstrated in the locales that are instituting it. There were far fewer technological options available to replace low skilled labor in 1965.)

[central_va]

From the chart you posted the minimum wage reached it’s peak in 1968 at an inflation adjusted $10.56 per hour in 2012 dollars or $1.60 per hour in 1968 dollars. You need to reevaluate your conclusion.