So in Illinois, the governor is trying to raise minimum wage from $8.25 to $15.00 an hour. While I agree that it may help in some ways, I think it will just cause the cost of living to raise so that employers can afford to pay their employees, and everyone will be in the same situation in the end.

My question is, do you think that jobs that pay higher than minimum wage should be required to pay their employees a higher pay when the minimum wage slowly rises? For example, someone that has a job paying $20 an hour now is making over twice the amount of minimum wage. If the cost of minimum wage raises to $15, and the individual that was making $20 is only given a raise based on cost of living increase, say to $25 an hour, is that fair? With minimum wage almost doubling, should everyone’s salary also increase the same percentage?