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The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

Raising the minimum wage represents a substantial financial burden for employers, particularly start-ups, early stage companies, and family-owned businesses. In response, business owners would be forced to either lay off workers or raise prices to offset the rise in labor costs.

I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion.

Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.

Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.