Short Take

Florida Gets It Right

Raising the Minimum Wage

Kelly Candaele | John Atlas | Peter Dreier

Last month, nearly four hundred thousand Florida workers got a dollar-an-hour raise. It wasn’t because employers had suddenly become more generous. In November, Florida voters had approved a ballot initiative to raise the state’s minimum wage to $6.15 an hour-a dollar higher than the federal level. Furthermore, Florida’s new minimum wage is pegged to inflati (...)


 

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about the writer

Kelly Candaele is president of the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees.

about the writer

John Atlas is president of the National Housing Institute and is writing a book about ACORN.

about the writer

Peter Dreier is E. P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Program at Occidental College. His next book, The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame, will be published by Nation Books in June.

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