'A Small Business Perspective on $15 Per Hour'

Shelf Awareness

"We can't raise the prices of books the way a restaurant can raise the prices of hamburgers.... The question is how we can raise the minimum wage to meet the cost of living and keep businesses like mine afloat....
"This... part is simple, but key--shop here. If people are making more money, that money needs to be spent locally. Local businesses return more then three times as much money to the local economy than chain stores. And believe me, Amazon doesn't care about replacing the bridge on Kingshighway, and they definitely won't bring your favorite author to town so you can meet them."

--Jarek Steele, co-owner of Left Bank Books, St. Louis, Mo., in a blog post entitled "The Bare Minimum--a Small Business Perspective on $15 Per Hour