[Agema]

Sorry, part of that is wrong. Increase the minimum wage and whilst the mean income goes up, the median will not, so more people will not be put across the poverty line. Besides, I think I also slightly misinterpreted NTJedi's point, I think you were actually saying that people already above the new minimum wage become poorer because costs go up and their salary doesn't alter, although I don't agree that's the case for reasons stated above. Sorry about the double post, didn't have an edit entry option the previous.