What is the minimum wage of where you live? What do you think the min wage should be?

Question

The minimum wage of where I live is $7.00 Canadian. I personally think that minimum wage should be calculated like this: If you work full-time (aka 40h/week), all year round, with 2 weeks vacation, how much would you have to earn per hour to make the poverty line in your community. Where I live, $7.00/h still puts you around 10 000 BELOW the poverty line. I am also really bad in economics, so maybe I am just ignorant to the way things work.
Question A) Where do you live, and how much is the minimum wage there?
Question B) How much do you think the minimum wage should be?
Question C) How should minimum wage be calculated

Feel free to answer any or all of these~!

Answer 1

I live in West Virginia, USA and minimum wage is $5.15 per hr. As to whether how much it should be...I don't think it makes a whole lot of difference, cause once the minimum wage goes up, so will everything else, so in order to pay the employees a higher wage, they will have to raise the price on there products, so that in turn putting us in the same situation as before rasing the wage. I feel min wage should be calulated according to the poverty level, and to find a way that both the employer and emplee makes a better wage.