Why It Took A Damn Near Apocalypse For Politicians to Finally Discuss Raising the Minimum Wage

It wasn't until minimum wage workers were finally deemed "essential" that the U.S. government was forced to look at how it treats them.

Members of Pasadenans Organizing for Progress and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network gather in favor of the minimum wage increase in Pasadena on Saturday, January. 26, 2019. (Photo by Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images)

For the first time in decades, a serious conversation about the inequities of minimum w…