Reported by: Rachel Tarr
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Web Producer: Jessica Reed Updated: July 24, 2008 4:24pm
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Good news for minimum wage worker your paycheck is about to get a little bit bigger.
Minimum wage will go up 70 cents an hour, which will bring it to $6.55 per hour. Currently the minimum wage rate is $5.85.
This is the second of three annual increases required by a 2007 law.
Next year minimum wage will go up to $7.25 an hour.
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