re: In Louisiana, you need twice the minimum wage to afford a 2-bedroom apartment

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And, if you work for somewhere longer than a year and never get paid more than minimum wage, then you are a severe screwup and you are only being employed as a favor or to fill some quota.

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Again, I didn't say just minimum wage. According to Pew which I quoted and linked above 30% of wage workers were 10.10 or below in 2013. My point is there are not enough higher paying jobs available to take a significant chunk of those employees if they all had the skills for higher paying jobs tomorrow. The problem is even if they start at minimum wage and do a good job they will only get small raises unless they move to a more skilled job. The problem is most industries that start at or very near minimum wage don't have tons of jobs above that so a significant number will be forced into staying in the low wage position.