- 1:31 pm Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 by Opinion Staff
Fast-food workers across the country have begun a push for raising their minimum pay to $15 an hour.
That increase would more than double the current federal minimum wage of $7.25. In Florida, which indexes the minimum wage to reflect increases in the cost of living, the 2013 minimum wage is $7.79 an hour.
This week fast-food workers staged protests in New York, Chicago, Detroit and other cities. The workers, who carried signs that said “Supersize Our Wages,” say they work hard but just can’t make ends meet.
President Barack Obama has called for raising the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour.