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Small businesses in Gainesville are adapting to Florida's minimum wage increase. Some embrace the change, while others are having difficulty.

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—Minimum wage workers in Florida saw a pay increase on Thursday after nearly 61 percent of ...

The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida suspended all in-person interviews in March in deference to health concerns arising from the global pandemic. At the same time, however, the program launched the Pandemic Oral History Project as a virtual research initiative in order to offer working-class people, elders and students in the Gulf South the opportunity to tell their own stories of survival, civic engagement and labor on the front lines of the battle against COVI...

Voters no doubt had good intentions when they went into the ballot box and backed a $15 minimum wage. But those good intentions will provide little solace for the Floridians who find themselves unemployed in the coming years as a result.

Dec 16, 2020 11:38 AM DeLand, FL - The dissolution of Volusia Countys Revenue Division and the creation of a Treasury and Billing Division is another step in the transition as required by Florida Amendment 10. Volusia County Council members gave unanimous approval to ordinance 2020-19 which revises provisions within the code because of Amendment 10.  Assistant County Attorney Heather Wallace explained that besides changing the name of the division, it includes deletion of reference...