Don’t “raise” the minimum wage – RESTORE IT!

Larry Lambert makes this point on an episode of ‘Highland’s Bunker’, and it is a good one.

Don’t use “raise the minimum wage” but use “restore the minimum wage”. It is more accurate. Setting the minimum wage at $15 per hour by 2024 and indexing it to the median wage growth thereafter would restore the minimum wage to 1968 levels.

The wording, “raising the minimum wage” gives the impression that working people are getting some bonus. They aren’t.