Put this in a category of limited ambition that you might call the Philadelphia Settle.

On Tuesday, Philadelphia primary voters will face a ballot question asking whether the city should set in motion a plan to increase its local minimum wage to $15 by 2025. Currently at $7.25, the floor set by the federal government, Pennsylvania is behind every single state you’d visit for a day trip, save for Virginia, which is the same.

When confronted with what raising the minimum wage could do for Philadelphia’s rotten reputation for being a poor big city, the city’s Commerce Director Harold Epps sounds exasperated.

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