Rhode Island also has a distinctive clam chowder: while Manhattan is red and New England white, the version here is clear.

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States such as New Jersey, Rhode Island and Colorado, where pension funds are deep in the red, have gone so far as to suspend cost-of-living adjustments altogether for the next 27 years in New Jersey.

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