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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...

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...