Forget owning property.
Health insurance is all but non-existent for workers paid the bottom rate.
The minimum wage is not a living wage, and for families it only maintains poverty. The federal minimum wage has never been high, but it hasn't always been as low as it is today. In the last 18 years, Republicans have held the White House or Congress for all but two years. These arguments simply don't hold water and never have. When Co ngress last year enacted President Bill Clinton's minimum wage increase, the greatest economic boom in a generation continued.