Efforts to impose "living wage" legislation misunderstand that no one is supposed to flip burgers or pump gas or do any other sort of entry level work for a living. If you make entry level jobs & entry level pay illegal you simply make it illegal to hire low skilled people, which prevents the poor from gaining skills.

"Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavor consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for?" ~ F. A. Hayek