Voters in Alaska, Arkansas, Nevada and South Dakota passed ballot initiatives raising the minimum wage as high as $9.75 an hour even as they swept Republican Senate and gubernatorial candidates into office.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/11/05/minimum-wage-election/18546713/
The Secular Jurist 
It would be fair if minimum wage was tied to a cost of living index, based on necessities – housing costs, utilities, food and transport, so that as cost of living increases wages are automatically increased. The present system feels like a con game where hiking prices while freezing wages amounts to cutting pay in real terms, with workers playing catch up and being left further behind.
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Absolutely. Although, the American system is diametrically opposed to such economic fairness, and that’s why the minimum wage is not tied to a cost of living index or to inflation.
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