Expert warns proposed $30/hour minimum wage would ‘obliterate’ certain industries Fox News Digital spoke to Manhattan Institute Cities policy analyst Santiago Vidal Calvo about the plan to raise the New York City minimum wage to $30/hour. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! An economist is warning that Virginia’s recent minimum wage mandate won’t help the state with affordability as it is intended and could lead to thousands of jobs being cut. "I think something that we've seen in