Florida passing a minimum wage increase to $15 a hour. I have seen it all now. My first job a mere 20ish years ago Paid 4.35? 4.60 an hour? Back then I got another job paying $10 a hour a couple years later and that was a lot more money. The problem is the professional jobs will not go up as fast as minimum wage. A starting nurses wage in 2000 was pretty close to $20 an hour, maybe slightly under at 18 or 19. Now its probably $23 in most areas in Florida. It won't be going up $5 an hour in the next 5 years, if it barely did it in the previous 20. Just increased cost of living for everyone and only provided a wage increase for the bottom. At least people can see college isn't worth it now lol.

Cost for everything goes up, but the middle class actually goes down. Bad policy.

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