Politics and the Minimum Wage

With the North Carolina legislature debating the importance of raising the state's minimum wage, I found this article from The American Prospect to be very timely. Minimum Politics, by former Clinton Administration Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, discusses a strategy Democrats could use to corner Republicans on this all too important issue.

Please click on the link below to read Reich's ideas of indexing the minimum wage to the inflation level.

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=11697