Florida for a Fair Wage

Floridians
need a fair,
living wage. Floridians need a
fair, living wage.

What does Amendment 2 do?

Amendment 2 - the Fair Wage Amendment - ensures that all Floridians can have the dignity of earning a fair wage for a hard day’s work. Amendment 2 raises Florida’s minimum wage – by slightly over $1 an hour, initially – to $10 per hour in 2021, then increases the hourly pay by $1 per hour each year until it reaches $15 per hour in 2026. After 2026, Florida’s minimum wage would increase with the rate of inflation, just like the state’s constitution currently requires.

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IN THE NEWS

NYT: Dollars on the Margins

In 2014, Julio Payes was working 80 hours a week at two full-time jobs. A permanent resident from Guatemala who...

WAMU 88.5: With Democrats In Control, Virginia Rushes To Increase Minimum Wage

An amended version of Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw’s (D-Springfield) minimum wage bill cleared the Virginia Senate’s Commerce and Labor...

NPR: Raising The Minimum Wage By $1 May Prevent Thousands Of Suicides, Study Shows

A new study suggests that raising the minimum wage might lower the suicide rate — especially when unemployment is high...

Brookings: Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay

Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its Employment Situation report (better known as the “jobs report”) to outline...

WLRN: Commercial Janitors In Miami Fight For Higher Wages

The protest signs read “Could you live on $8.46 cents?” About 24 janitors, mostly women, marched and held up brooms...

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