it will soon be 10 years since the last national minimum wage raise. those who fear another one still think it will hurt small businesses and cause job losses.

they should check out the experiences of places where it happens regularly, including some states and countries like the uk, where raised minimum wage has been accompanied by lower unemployment. britain has seen it annually since 1999.

bushies still spout the obvious truth every chance they get—as if it proves their economic theories right—that more americans have jobs than ever before. they never mention that over a million more americans are unemployed than when bush took office. job growth hasn't kept up with population growth. that's a reversal of what happened under clinton, and—obviously—it wasn't caused by raising the minimum wage.