[BitWielder1]

Higher minimum wage = Higher unemployment rate, especially for the lower income people who it was supposed to help.

[plangent]

Higher minimum wage has a ripple effect throughout union contracts whose pay scales are hitched to it.

Make $42.50 and hour? Up you go to $45.00 an hour. And all it took was a wave of the legislative hand (which the unions paid handsomely)