Escape The Minimum Wage Cage

Increasing the nation’s minimum wage is shaping up to be one of the most divisive election-year issues. On April 30, the President Obama-inspired proposal to raise minimum wage to $10.10 per hour failed in the Senate. On the flip side, D.C. plus five states and counting —  Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, West Virginia — have already enacted increases in 2014, adding up to a total of 21 states and D.C. that currently set the bar above the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.