02 March 2006
Rhode Island: Workers Receive Minimum Wage Increase Today
by aflciopolitical
March 1,2006 PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island workers are receiving the first of two increases to the state's minimum wage.
27 February 2006
The Call - News - 02/14/2006 - Lawmakers skip tradition to beat minimum wage bill deadline
by aflciopolitical
PROVIDENCE -- Breaking with General Assembly tradition, the Senate last week sent the House version of the bill raising the minimum wage to the governor before the House passed the Senate version of the same legislation.
The Call - News - 02/15/2006 - Carcieri bows out of battle over minimum wage
by aflciopolitical
PROVIDENCE -- Gov. Donald Carcieri is throwing in the towel in the fight over increasing the minimum wage. Carcieri announced Tuesday that he will not veto the minimum wage bill after all, bowing to the reality that the General Assembly would have ove
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