The Democrats hope to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25/hr to $15/hr by 2025. That’s over a 100% increase, and it’s being fought by Republicans. This week, on The Nation Speaks, we look at how $15/hr would play out in different parts of the country, and for different types of businesses and workers. To help break that down we speak with Rachel Greszler, an economist at The Heritage Foundation; Nebraska small business owner, Kevin Barnhill; New York business magnate John Catsimatidis; and Jacob Vigdor, who studied what happened in Seattle after a big minimum wage hike there in 2016. We also ask Americans across the country what they think about raising the minimum wage, in our favorite recurring feature, America Q&A. Then, we look at Amazon’s business culture and why it just doesn’t jive with unions, according to Robin Gaster, who literally wrote the book on Amazon called, “Behemoth, …