California set to raise minimum wage to $10/hour

[torchbearer]

It's funny. The states with the highest median household income are not all of the same same states with a min. wage above the federal level. A lot of lawmakers in places like OR and CA are either just completely clueless when it comes to economics, or do it because it is popular or perhaps both. This is bad policy. Why do CA and OR have some many unemployed and poor people? This might be part of the problem...

It looks like there are only 6 states without a min. wage for most workers. Of course, what happens currently in all states, if there is none or the state level is below the federal level, the federal level is used. Basically, for an area government, whatever the higher amount (federal, state or local), that's what is used. http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/labor/state-minimum-wage-chart.aspx
AL
LA
MS
NH
SC
TN

laissez faire economics in louisiana please.
side note: republicans control all houses and governorship, yet we still have interventionist economic policy in louisiana.