FORBES Magazine has concurred this is biggest economic MYTH against increasing minimum wage is the excuse of job losses. Big business uses this critique to intimidate those who are pursuing a decent wage.

As a kid I grew up where minimum wage was for students not for adults and the post educated.

And the MYTH has perpetuated into a  gospel of truth when its a fabrication of economic reality. 

Check out Australia's minimum wage, in the late 80s it was up to $10/hr