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Before her arrival in Rhode Island, Catherine was news director at WHQR in Wilmington, North Carolina. She was also news director at KBIA in Columbia, Missouri where she was a faculty member at the University Of Missouri School Of Journalism.

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12:57 am
Tue January 1, 2013

New Year Brings Minimum Wage Hikes In 10 States

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Rhode Island's minimum wage will increase from $7.40 to $7.75.
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Originally published on Tue January 8, 2013 12:23 pm

On Tuesday, the minimum wage in 10 states will increase by anywhere from a dime to 35 cents.

For all of the states but one, the pay hikes are part of automatic adjustments designed to keep up with the cost of living.

In Rhode Island, it took a state law to raise the minimum wage for the first time in five years.

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