
Given all of the recent talk about growing economic inequality, the gap between real wages and what these wages can buy, the cost of living, and the effects of long-term unemployment, (I thought it was necessary to put the question of what the American people think about the idea of raising the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
In responding, keep the following perspective in mind:
-Congress, our "esteemed" federal legislative body, 50%...