Why conservatives should support a higher minimum wage

Minimum Wage
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Income inequality is at the root of most of America's major socioeconomic problems, truly the radioactive element that causes the body politic to decay. It's the motive force that kicks the president's agenda forward, and an issue around which the Democratic Party can unite.

Here, there are two forces acting against each other. One is shareholder capitalism, where immense political power is concentrated in the board rooms of the few; the other, right now, for lack of a better umbrella term, is President Obama's agenda.

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Marc Ambinder

Marc Ambinder is TheWeek.com's editor-at-large. He is the author, with D.B. Grady, of The Command and Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry. Marc is also a contributing editor for The Atlantic and GQ. Formerly, he served as White House correspondent for National Journal, chief political consultant for CBS News, and politics editor at The Atlantic. Marc is a 2001 graduate of Harvard. He is married to Michael Park, a corporate strategy consultant, and lives in Los Angeles.