I make 17 an hour as a metal fabricator, a job that requires a good amount of math, manual labor, and a little bit of engineering (Im not just a weld monkey). Peoples lives actually depend on some of the things I make / weld. $15 an hour to heat up some bleached meat and put it between two flavorless pieces of bread is absolutely retarded. I agree minimum wage should be raised slightly to keep up with, lets say, 3% inflation. But $15 is insane. Like Matt said, a minimum wage job is just a stepping stone, its not meant to keep you employed for more than 4 years (AT MOST). What about older people who didn't have the opportunity to go to school and have to work a minimum wage job? I might sound like an ass, but thats life and life isn't really fair. There are so many things that are unfair in this world, we can't possibly help to change it all.