Governor Delivers 2019 State Of The State Speech

(Providence, RI)  --  Finishing unfinished work was the theme of Governor Gina Raimondo's annual State of the State speech on Tuesday.  Raimondo, in her fifth year as governor, proposed raising the minimum wage to just over eleven dollars per hour on the path to a fifteen-dollar-an-hour wage and asked lawmakers to make this the year women's access to reproductive health care is codified.  She also said it's time to ban guns in schools and military-style weapons in Rhode Island.  On the educational front, Raimondo pledged an additional thirty-million dollars in the budget for K-to-12 education, universal pre-K coverage and an expansion of the free college tuition program to include the last two years of a four-year degree at Rhode Island College.


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