Daily Camera endorses Amendment 70
October 29, 2016
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The Daily Camera cited CFI in a piece discussing why they endorse the passage of Amendment 70, which would raise the state’s minimum wage.
In Colorado, more than 600,000 workers fall below the federal poverty line for a family of four, which was $23,850 a year in 2014, or about $12 an hour. The current minimum wage in Colorado is only $8.31. Amendment 70 would increase the wage to $12 by 2020 and would give workers a better chance at making ends meet. “Raising the minimum wage is the tool before us to lift hundreds of thousands of Colorado workers out of poverty.”
Read the full piece here.
