Once an idea considered so fringe that Hillary Clinton eschewed it on a national level, more than doubling the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour has become a widely lauded cornerstone of President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus relief plan.
It’s still a terrible proposal.
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