Reuters reports voters in four states raised minimum wages on Tuesday even as Republicans who oppose such increases won nationally, indicating that workers may still be able to improve compensation. Pay hikes appeal to working-class voters who lifted Republican Donald Trump to a win in the US presidential race, and also to those who voted for Hillary Clinton, worker advocates said. “This could be a uniting issue,” said Saru Jayaraman, co-director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United and director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley.