Ramesh Ponnuru: Raising Minimum Wage Is Still A Bad Idea

A popular idea, just a bad one.     Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, as President Barack Obama urged in his State of the Union address last month, is as popular an idea as ever. It’s also a worse idea than ever. Obama presented it as a way to help struggling families: “Americans overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full      ... MORE