When Bill Clinton first took office, there was a movement under way to raise minimum wage. He also wrote that most minimum wage workers are not poor. Despite his own acknowledgement of the negative effects of raising minimum wage, Labor Secretary Robert Reich recommended that minimum wage be increased. A Congressional Budget Office Study projects that when there is a mandatory increase in minimum wage on the federal level, there is a commensurate loss of approximately 500,000 jobs. The same occurs on the state level.
Government has yet to solve any of society's ills.
By all accounts, government is run rather ineffectively and inefficiently. There isn't a person or a business that could survive in their everyday course of living if they modeled themselves after the way government runs itself and the way government spends money. Evidently, they miscalculated something, somewhere. Yet, government insists it is their right and responsibility to step in and oversee our private lives. That would be fine if government were held accountable for the lunacy of their social programs and miscalculations.