Business Owners, Workers Rally For $12 Minimum Wage

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DENVER (CBS4) - Dozens of business owners and workers rallied in downtown Denver on Wednesday, calling for a higher minimum wage.

The demonstrators are part of the Colorado Families for a Fair Wage campaign. They want a ballot initiative that would ask voters to approve an increase in the minimum wage to $12 by 2020.

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"I run a landscape maintenance business and we also do landscaping so when I started my company 14 years ago, I started people at $15 an hour. My business has never been more healthy," said one demonstrator.

The group continues to gather signatures with a 99,000 signature goal needed to qualify for the November ballot. So far, they have collected 25,000 signatures from across Colorado in places like Alamosa, Canon City, Golden and Denver.