all the people clamoring for a raise in the minimum are getting what they want, but how effective is this going to be given that it's being spaced out over 5 or 6 years? next year it goes up to 11, then a year later it's 12, then a year later . . . that's not exactly what they were hoping for, i'd guess.
and also this: will prices creep upward incrementally to keep pace with the wage increase, stay stagnant, or go down? i think there's going to be a zero sum gain on this one.