I lived in Northern Virginia most of my life until after college moving to Oregon. Virginia infamously stuck to a 7.25 wage until the last two or 3 years. I tho

I lived in Northern Virginia most of my life until after college moving to Oregon. Virginia infamously stuck to a 7.25 wage until the last two or 3 years. I thought it was the worst and I worked a job for one month getting paid that. But now that I’m in Oregon I’ve noticed small businesses can’t compete with corporations here at all on price. It’s honestly crazy how much worse it is to get food at a small business. It’s definitely partially because of the overhead high minimum wage creates. Only small businesses that I see who can compete are entirely within a family so they probably have family members helping out without expecting $22 an hour or whatever it is here. Point is minimum wage laws aren’t black and white.