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Marilyn Sorensen, a home health care provider, speaks during the Colorado Families for a Fair Wage campaign rally on the outdoor patio at Vine Street Pub on May 18, 2016 in Denver, Colorado.Colorado citizens will vote this fall on an initiative that would raise the state’s minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020.
Colorado’s current minimum wage, which is indexed to inflation, is $8.31 an hour.
Lizeth Chacon, co-chair of Colorado Families for a Fair Wage, the group behind Initiative 101, said she expects it will resonate with people getting squeezed by rising living costs, especially for housing.
Keep Colorado Working, a coalition that is opposing the initiative, argues that Colorado has already raised its minimum wage 61 percent the past 10 years and that lifting it another 44 percent through 2020 goes too far.
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