HARRISBURG (AP) Gov. Tom Wolf said Tuesday that passage of a higher minimum wage in Pennsylvania is one of his priorities in the current legislative session.

Wolf said he backs a bill sponsored by Rep. Patty Kim, a Dauphin County Democrat, to boost the state minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour over two years.He made the comment at an impromptu news briefing at a downtown hotel where he spoke during a closed-door meeting of union leaders sponsored by the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO."A floor on compensation is an important macroeconomic thing," the Democratic governor said. "It makes the market stronger, makes the free market work better."Wolf said Pennsylvania's minimum wage has not been increased for years."I think it's time to do something," he said.The federal minimum wage has stood at $7.25 an hour since 2009, and President Barack Obama is leading the drive to increase the hourly standard to $10.10.Readers commentReader reaction on the Times News Facebook page was divided about the idea. Here are a few comments:Andrea Boswell: Try living on minimum wage. Impossible.Timothy M. Stahl: It will kill even more jobs than Obamacare has.Daniel Leigh Shafer: People will always stick their hand out for more, more, more. If they're not doing anything to earn a raise why just hand it out?So if they add $5 to minimum wage and now someone is making $13 an hour doesn't that mean that the guy making $15 an hour now should be making $20 an hour now?Tara Banninger: Anyone that opposes this doesn't realize that minimum wage today, when you account for inflation, is lower than it was decades ago.You must also consider that the bottom is just that: the bottom, and how much more to pay those that are above the bottom is determined at what the bottom pay is at.If you raise the bottom, you also have to raise all those above the bottom. because obviously more skilled labor deserves more money than a minimum wage job.If you look at the state of income in this country you'll find that all salaries the lower end and the middle wage jobs have all been stagnant and with inflation even middle wages are lower.Jeremy T. Glaush: This is simple economics. People who own businesses have costs. Such as a pizza place. Why is the price of pizza low? Because you have people who work there who are either owners, who usually do not "pay themselves" or they hire teenage kids or older people who are not "relying on the minimum wage" for their livelihood.So you go from paying a teenager, who is probably goofing off more than working when the boss isn't standing there (not being agist just going by what I've seen working in the food industry), $7 an hour to $10 an hour.You have lost some of your profit. How do you make that profit up? You raise the price of a pizza from $11 to $15. That way you have your money for operating and paying yourself that you lost due to the fact that you had to pay the teenager that much more.But during these bad economic times not many people are raking in the high paying jobs.This is not a solution because now a family who would normally buy a pizza on a Friday night, because it's a cheap and easy meal for families on the go, may opt to buy something else therefore decreasing the income of the owner of the pizza place.Who knows, maybe the pizza shop owner will opt to work longer hours him or herself and not hire the teenager and maybe at that point the cost of the pizza will not go up.Larger corporations have an easier time absorbing the minimum wage bump, small businesses do not have that ability.Mary Minor: It is about time! All the naysayers have never had to live on minimum wage.