President Bush has suggested that he might favor a raise in the federal minimum wage as long as it is coupled with tax breaks for small businesses. Sounds like a reasonable compromise to me. Even though only 12% of the population, according to the last figures I have read, are affected, many of these people are single parents attempting to rear their children on not much of anything except the social programs conservatives so despise. Yet these same conservatives don’t want a raise that might take some of the millions away from corrupt CEO’s and give it to the bottom tier that actually, with the labor of their hands makes this profit possible. Workers are uundervalued, but let’s see their company florish without them. Not all minimum wage workers are teens and students.

After all these years, ABOUT TIME!