Erin Sigrist: Minimum wage increase may hurt those it is intended to help

Editor’s Note: This commentary is by Erin Sigrist, who is President of the Vermont Retail & Grocers Association.
Each year, Vermont’s grocers and retailers hire hundreds of high school and college students for their first jobs. They train them to use a cash register, to show up for work on time and in clean clothes, to interact with customers in a polite and professional manner, to problem solve when a customer requests something that’s out of stock. Some of these employees