And prices will be going up on Jan 1, thanks to the mandated hourly rate of pay.
The best minimum rate is 0. Let the market set the rate.
But what this really is about is total government ownership of the means of production, which would let the government set all pay rates and prices and usher in their Holy Grail, communism.
“Let the market set the rate.”
In the end the market decides the rate, even when libs try to force their ideas on it. Even entry level workers make more than the current minimum wage in weeks if they do a good job so the bottom rate is arbitrary.
Besides, if everything is equal in the magic land of libs why not raise the minimum wage to 100 dollars an hour? The answer applies to 20 dollars the same.