States with the highest minimum wage

POSTED: 1:46 PM Oct 14 2011   UPDATED: 12:15 PM Feb 13 2013
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In his State of the Union address, President Obama pressed to raise the hourly rate in stages to $9 an hour in 2015, up from the current $7.25. Find out which states currently have the highest minimum wage.

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Financial think-tank 24/7 Wall Street used data from the National Employment Law Project to determine the eight states with the highest minimum wage in the U.S.

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