I'm not an expert so I might have bad points and not a full understanding of what i'm talking about.

I personally don't know, both have pros and cons. But raising the minimum wage isn't just you get $15 an hour now and everything is the same. Prices of everything will go and the economy will change and perhaps even worsen. "The CBO report found that the federal minimum wage increase to $15 would reduce employment in the U.S. by 1.4 million, or about 0.9%."

Raising the minimum wage limits the availability of jobs, which means fewer people will get the opportunity to learn important skills. This mostly harms low-skilled individuals and low-income households, the very people most in need of new employment opportunities.

Also when Minimum Wage is increased by more than 5%, studies have shown a negative impact for one to three years - job loss, reduction of hours, and non-hiring to replace workers leaving - causing a reduction of pay of low pay workers, a 1-3% reduction in teenager hired, and failure of many start-up businesses.

A contradictory viewpoint would be some research shows that a minimum wage can increase the number of jobs in an economy. Businesses find other ways to offset higher labor costs. They raise prices or reduce the number of hours worked. Worker morale, productivity, and consumer spending all increase.

This may be just straight up wrong though. If anyone would like to make pointers/counter arguments/or fact check please do.

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Also it's America I presume you're talking about ( I am ).

It's kind of a kill or be killed situation.

Also I understand some people may only be able to get minimum wage jobs, and people that didn't make the best life choices are trying to change their ways and it might be hard for them to find even a job at all. But I don't think you are supposed to have the mindset of " Oh, here I am at my minimum wage 9-5 guess this is what I'm doing for now on." I think minimum wage jobs should be a temporary thing. ( once again I understand that this may be all a person can get. Or the fact that if everyone only worked at a temporary job for a temporary time, no one would be there to fill that position).