but it would be counter-productive for employers to lower pay when an employee is already making minimum wage.
Ah, what a high-priced "edamacation" buys these days. Stunning, really.
You do realize that if one lowers the state minimum wage from $7.28 to the federally mandated level of $7.25, right? So it's not even a 4-cent decrease, it's a 3-cent decrease because no state is allowed to pay less than the federal minimum wage.
3 whole cents an hour! Why, if one works 40 hours a week for a whole year, that comes out to--oh my goodness!--$60 per YEAR! How will I be able to afford January's latte? Oh, the humanity!
And toots, if someone is already making minimum wage, and an employer tries to lower it, there's another word for that--ILLEGAL.
Your major is what, again?