WOW It's amazing to see the changes that the US Government brought to Alaska with it's one shoe fits all legislation, regulations and laws.  If you raise the minimum wage to $15 hr that will be a huge job killer in the USA and it will have no employment benefits as it kills jobs and employment opportunity for the most needy among us (the young, the inexperienced, the minorities and the disabled).  In terms of manufacturing the USA is out of the loop as we compete in the Global market with skilled labor as low as $1.50 to 2.00 hr.  Next on the scale is equal pay for equal work which is another ill conceived job killer and an employment for attorneys who will sue every company and executive claims damages for an unskilled employee that didn't get paid as much as a skilled employee or a woman that didn't get paid as much as her male supervisor.   Lawsuits in the billion coming to visit you.  Paid maturity leave for mothers and fathers will be just great for bolstering female employment.