With Unemployment Already High, Why Are Leftists Pushing for an Increase in the Minimum Wage?

Liberals continue to confuse a 'minimum wage' with a 'living wage'. Until enough people develop an understanding that the two are not the same and can never be the same we will continue to have this debate and all of the problems that proceed from it. Unions keep pushing for higher statutory minimum wages in order to force their own wages higher without having to negotiate the increase with employers, not out of a sense of responsibility to the unskilled worker and those living in poverty.