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Fight for 15 rally takes place in Tampa

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A crowd of low-wage workers crowded into Tampa’s Lykes Gaslight Park on Tuesday afternoon to join the nationwide “Fight for 15” protest, calling for a $15 minimum wage and a union. Workers in 270 cities across the country (and more than 20 in Florida) were expected to walk out in what organizers hoped would be be the fast food industry’s largest strike ever. The movement during the past year has expanded beyond fast-food workers to include home health care workers, child…

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Rena Frazier blasts Ross Spano on upholding ban on shacking up in Florida

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Did you know that it’s technically illegal in the Sunshine State to live with a member of the opposite sex in Florida? Not that it’s being actively enforced, but yes, there has been a prohibition on cohabitation in the Sunshine State since 1968. (Michigan and Mississippi are the only other states with such a law.) Which means that, according to 2014 census data, there are nearly 438,000 unmarried male-female couples among the state’s 7.3 million households. However, for those couples…

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