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I love the mixed levels of irony here. On the one hand, it's been 4 years, so it looks like a failure. At the same time, $15 just isn't enough. What a joke. Also at the same time, if he could actually push hard on raising the minimum wage now, he could probably drum up some votes in the election.
It's cool that all of those facts are at play in this one little statement.
Unfortunately, even if there was a dem majority all around, I don't think we'd get a sufficient boost to minimum wage. $15 on the federal level would definitely help, but the only realistic way to get what we're due is unionizing and starting co-ops. Luckily, that's become more popular lately.
It isn't enough in some areas, and arguably too much in others. There's just too much diversity to have a reasonable minimum wage.
I say:
Crappy wages are a symptom that can't really be solved by increasing a minimum wage.