Raising the minimum wage is stupid. Minimum wage in and of itself is stupid and violates employers rights to pay commensurate to worth of labor. It's silly to raise it to some arbitrary number when the last estimate I could find shows only 2.9% of the working population (that's reported income) earns minimum wage. Minimum wage was never meant to support a family, it was meant for entry level/unskilled labor. In reality, if you're earning minimum wage you shouldn't be for long, and if you are after a long period of time you either A) are not a good worker, or B) need to find a new job.