Florida votes to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour

[RandySF]

Florida voters approved an amendment Tuesday to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour over the coming years.

The state’s voters approved the minimum wage ballot initiative, Amendment 2, by just over 61 percent, according to the Associated Press. The initiative will amend the state’s constitution to enshrine minimum wage increases that will scale up to $15 by 2026, up from $8.56 an hour now.

Florida joins just seven other states in the process of raising their minimum wages to $15 an hour. And it’s the first state to raise the minimum wage to as high as $15 an hour via ballot measure.

The federal minimum wage remains at $7.25 an hour. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden also supports a $15 minimum wage, while President Trump has said he believed the issue should be left up to states to decide.




https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/04/florida-amendment-2-minimum-wage/

[msongs]

1. gonna take them 5 years to get there.....sheeesh nt

[rso]

2. Minimum wage

Just like they diluted the Felon Voting Restoration public referendum that passed in 2018, Florida republicans will attempt to diminish this referendum as well.

[Hoyt]

3. Maybe good, but it starts at $10 NEXT September 30th. Walmart, etc., already

have a minimum wage significantly more than that.