Additionally, only about 4% of minumum wage earners are heads of household. Most are either second income earners like a wife or teenagers, so Teddy Kennedy's sob story of minumum wage earners only making $10K a year is basically just appeal to emotion with little practical meaning in this debate. Minimum wage is a starting place for most employees who quickly move up in pay and promotions. Raising the minumum wage now will lock many of these people out of the job market by squeezing hiring and ensuring they don't make the move up in wages they could accomplish on their own if govt. got out of the way.
Not according to the table in reply 9.