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"They have no choice but to do these jobs. The jobs they do are the worst jobs."
John Morgan, perhaps Florida’s most prominent personal injury attorney and certainly its best-known advocate for medical marijuana, has a new mission.
The Orlando lawyer is spending millions on a campaign to boost the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour -- a hefty increase that a prominent business group calls unreasonable. Morgan’s Florida for a Fair Wage political committee has collected most of the signatures it needs to put a constitutional amendment to voters in the November 2020 presidential election.
The proposed ballot question calls for Florida’s minimum wage, pegged at $8.46 an hour in 2019, to jump to $10 on September 30, 2021, and then rise a dollar a year until reaching $15 in 2026. After that, the minimum wage would be subject to annual cost of living increases.
Read more at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
