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Minimum Wage Protests

Photo courtesy of organize now, orlandoweekly.com
Photo courtesy of organize now, orlandoweekly.com

Last week, in more than 150 cities across the country, masses of fast-food workers raised their voices and their employment risks in an attempt to make themselves heard.

With the federal minimum wage stalled at $7.25 an hour for the past five years and Florida’s minimum wage not doing much better at $7.93, the heating lamps of increasingly apparent income inequality are working overtime on those trudging through two or three jobs a day. Outside a Burger King on International Drive, protesters chanted, “Hold the burgers, hold the fries. Make our wages supersized.” By supersized, the workers across the country meant $15 an hour.

Bill joined WMFE in September 2008. He started his radio career at WFCS at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain Connecticut where he hosted a weekly comedy/variety show and gospel and blues programs. Bill then spent 10 years at WNPR in Hartford, Connecticut, where he worked in radio operations and hosted the evening classical music. During this time he also spent two years working overnights and weekends at WTIC 1080 News in Hartford were he anchored the local newscasts, filed stories for CBS radio and prepared news stories for the morning drive.

Bill lives in Deltona and enjoys travel, motorcycling, restaurants and live music.