Amazing, but true. Here’s the op-ed. (Thanks to Michael Maresco.)
It’s not totally sound, but at least they understood the problems with the minimum wage. They wonder why liberals still support the minimum wage. For one thing, because they don’t fix it to the cost of living, it gives them an opportunity every X years to make a lot of noise apparently helping the poor.
It also helps unions by pricing lower-skilled workers out of the market. If a union guy gets (say) $22/hr, and it takes three lower-skilled people to do the same work, then at a minimum wage of $6, it pays to hire the three lower-skilled workers ($22 vs. $18). But if the minimum wage is $8, now you should hire the union guy. So imagine that: unions favor the minimum wage for reasons other than love and solidarity.
To find out how wages really rise, listen to this talk.