No: It would worsen the economy

Mentioned: Ten years ago, the state Legislature considered a bill to raise the state minimum wage. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, certainly no bastion of conservative thought, reported that the wage increase would cost the university system $5.2 million, which would “result in approximately 768,500 fewer hours of employment in the UW System for students and limited-term employees.” Clearly, it was their younger workers who would have been hurt. [Column by Christian Schneider