Professor Glenn MacDonald tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that a minimum wage increase actually would harm the people at the bottom of the pay scale.  “In fact, it is exactly those people who won’t be helped because they are the people who will wind up getting fired.”

MacDonald suggests that the working poor here and elsewhere would be better served if lawmakers focused on other avenues to raise their quality of living. He said minimum-wage legislation is just political pandering, and he likened it to “vote-buying.”
Link to article: St. Louis minimum wage may face problems without equivalent in St. Louis County
9/7/15