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City Pay Raise
In his State of the City address last week, New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell outlined many of his goals for the City in 2016, one of them being a pay raise for some City workers. Mitchell says he wants the City to be able to provide it's lowest paid employees with a living wage...
Revisiting Min. Wage
Revisiting Min. Wage
Revisiting Min. Wage
The state Senate is set to again take up a proposed increase in the minimum wage in an effort to break a procedural logjam with the House over the issue. Senators are expected Thursday to debate a bill that would raise the minimum wage from $8 to $11 per hour over three years, while tying future increases to the rate of inflation...