Amazon raised the minimum wage for its workforce to $15 a hour and urged the federal government to do the same for everyone.
In the federal government's case it would more than double the current federal minimum wage and be a move akin to Henry Ford's famous 1914 wage raise that launched the middle-class and made the American economy the strongest the world has ever seen, but it does have repercussions according to this latest report:
On the plus side the next time the President throws rolls of paper towels at people, calling it hurricane relief, it could be closer to being hurricane relief. 
