On to something serious, the national debate is returning to the minimum wage. And although the two most popular arguments are "you can't raise a family on minimum wage," and "increasing minimum wage doesn't increase unemployment rates," the history of minimum wage laws implies something's fishy with those claims.

By the way, not everybody making minimum wage is poor. Many well-to-do high school students have minimum wage jobs. I don't know of any decent arguments why high school students need more money. If you want to target the poor with more money, consider increasing the Earned Income Credit, which has a better chance of actually reaching the poor (although your definition of poor may be different than mine).

However, I find it very interesting that two credentialed liberals got the New York Times to publish an incredibly racist editorial in support of raising the minimum wage.