Minimum wage is the outlawing of lower paying jobs.
The minimum wage should be $0.00. If sit on your ass all day, and produce no good or service of value to your fellow man, you earn the minimum wage. As soon as you start doing something of value to somebody else, your wage will rise above minimum to a degree commensurate to the value you produce for others.
Businesses that pay very low wages are being indirectly subsidized by taxpayer money. If those employees are below the poverty level the government gives them subsidies for housing, food, medical care, etc. Those subsidies allow workers to continue to go to work for wages they couldn’t otherwise survive on. That’s why the Chamber of Commerce types love both cheap labor and the welfare status quo.