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Advocates for raising the minimum wage in Florida have gone local, given the stalled effort in Tallahassee for a statewide increase.

But even the local efforts have hit a snag, this time from the courts.

Officials in Miami Beach, for example, recently passed an ordinance that would raise its minimum wage to $13.31 an hour by 2021. That's up from the current Florida minimum wage of $8.10 an hour.

 

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