Nobody lives off of minimum wage and nobody should. All a minimum wage job is for is to grow skills in order to become a better competitor in the workforce. All it does is increase the cost of living and accomplishes nothing. You raise the minimum wage and prices go up to offset the increase so they're back to where they were and the rest of us are paying more. When you talk about taking it from 7.25 to 15.00 That is enormous. A small business say with 5 minimum wage employees. That represents a 38.00 an hour raise, 304.00 a day, 1,500.00 a week, 6,000 a month and 73,000.00 a year. That doesn't include the extra cost of workmans compensation, federal unemployment, state unemployment, or the extra payroll taxes such as social security and medicare. No small business can afford to absorb a $6000 a month hit in their overhead without passing that on to the consumer. That can cost lots of jobs, cause businesses to shut down and wreak havoc economically.The only one that wins is the government in the form of extra tax revenue from everyone, and they piss away enough of my money already !!!