{"id":3753,"date":"2020-11-05T12:52:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T12:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3753"},"modified":"2020-11-05T12:52:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T12:52:48","slug":"florida-becomes-the-first-state-in-the-south-to-vote-yes-on-a-15-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3753","title":{"rendered":"Florida becomes the first state in the South to vote yes on a $15 minimum wage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Florida&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2020\/11\/3\/21546906\/live-results-florida-minimum-wage-amendment-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voters have said yes<\/a>&nbsp;to increasing the state\u2019s minimum wage to $15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They did so by approving&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Florida_Amendment_2,_%2415_Minimum_Wage_Initiative_(2020)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amendment 2<\/a>, which increases the state\u2019s minimum wage from $8.56 to $15 by September 30, 2026, according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/03\/us\/elections\/results-florida-amendment-2-raise-minimum-wage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times<\/a>&nbsp;and the Associated Press. The change is incremental, with employers being asked to increase wages, essentially, by $1 a year. The amendment also specifies that as of September 30, 2027, Florida must adjust its state minimum wage based on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/help\/one_screen\/cw.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers<\/a>&nbsp;(CPI-W), meaning wages will be adjusted up or down as consumer prices change. The same measure is used to calculate changes in Social Security benefits.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2020\/11\/3\/21534745\/florida-amendment-2-minimum-wage-results\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2020\/11\/3\/21534745\/florida-amendment-2-minimum-wage-results<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Florida voters have said yes to increasing the state\u2019s minimum wage to $15.<\/p>\n<p>They did so by approving Amendment 2, which increases the state\u2019s minimum wage from $8.56 to $15 by September 30, 2026, according to the New York Times and the Associated Press. The change is incremental, with employers being asked to increase wages, essentially, by $1 a year. The amendment also specifies that as of September 30, 2027, Florida must adjust its state minimum wage based on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), meaning wages will be adjusted up or down as consumer prices change. The same measure is used to calculate changes in Social Security benefits.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[198,471,351,479],"class_list":["post-3753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-elections","tag-florida","tag-minimum-wage","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3754,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions\/3754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}