Split off the factual claim that raising the minimum wage would lift millions of families’ incomes into its own idea.
A minimum wage reduces poverty. Nobody who works full time should be poor, yet a full-time minimum-wage earner with two kids still falls below the poverty line. Raising the minimum wage would lift the incomes of millions of working families.
Barack Obama made this argument in his 2013 State of the Union address, declaring that “no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty.”
Nobody who works full time should be poor. Yet a full-time minimum-wage earner with two kids still falls below the poverty line, so the minimum wage should be raised.
Barack Obama made this argument in his 2013 State of the Union address, declaring that “no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty.”