This is really dumb. Raisng the minimum wage will simply cause many more poorly adaptive people to be unemployed, not re-employed or redeployed. If parity is to be realized, the government should get out of the socialistic wage-control business and let people earn what they can, while they can, on the basis of their abilities, and according to the need. The suicidal impulse will go away when someone who is able to work can find some kind of work, if it’s only by the day.
So who does the work after all these people lose their jobs?