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A Tribune editorial recounted the economic woes that would be brought about by increasing the current minimum wage. Yet a letter released this past spring by 54 economists, including a Nobel Prize laureate, Laurence R. Klein, stated that the proposed legislation to increase the minimum wage to 50 percent of the average hourly wage (where it historically has been) would not have an adverse impact on the economy.
The current minimum wage does not pay a full-time worker enough to keep a family out of poverty. The proposed increase would help the more than 7 milion people who count on the minimum wage to support their families.
