Three $10 bills. Because of the additional labor cost to businesses, raising the minimum wage can in fact lead to companies simply terminating many of their minimum wage workers to avoid giving them a raise, and many companies may hire fewer teens or unskilled laborers. Whether this initiative will succeed in the current political climate remains to be seen. There's evidence the worst-case scenarios that are often purported to come with a mandated increase in minimum wage don't ever play out, said Michael Shields, a researcher with Policy Matters Ohio. [CDATA[/* >