Friday, March 29, 2024

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Editorial and Op-Ed

Yes, ‘it’s an employees’ market’

“It’s an employees’ market,” said Lisa Abbott, Lifespan Corp.’s senior vice president of human relations and community affairs, at PBN’s March 8 Workforce Development...

It’s time to take stock of housing options

The United States is facing an expanding gap between how much workers earn and how much they have to pay for housing. Workers have faced...

Teacher turnover may not be as bad as expected

Every spring, school and district leaders ask teachers about their plans to return to teaching in the fall. They need to know how many...

Businesses still wary of legal marijuana

After several false starts, this looks to be the year recreational marijuana use is legalized in Rhode Island. Business opposition is the most significant remaining...
WHITE-HOT: The $30 million sale of Newport’s Clarendon Court last year set a new record for the highest price ever paid for a home in the Ocean State. / 
COURTESY MIKE OSEAN

R.I.’s high-end home market has room to run in 2022

What goes up must come down, we’ve been taught, except apparently when it comes to high-end home sales in the Ocean State. Last year was...

Disasters hurt affordable housing most

The tornadoes and wildfires that devastated communities from Kentucky to Colorado in the final weeks of 2021 left thousands of people displaced or homeless....

Want better child care? Try entrepreneurial training

Christine Heer – a veteran preschool teacher – had long harbored a passion to run a nature-based preschool. So in 2015 she opened Sprouts...

Who’s making decisions on new bus hub?

When virtual hearings on proposals for a new downtown Providence transit hub begin on Feb. 24, they will not include a contested multihub plan...
IN THE FIGHT: Paul Amaral, owner of East Providence-based Amaral Custom Fabrications Inc., is struggling to fill open positions but still has high hopes for his business this year. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELY

Hits keep coming, but pandemic-hardened businesses adapting

Inflation is at a 40-year high and qualified, committed workers seem scarcer than ever. Yet profits are up strongly for many local businesses from...

Holdouts may be returning to the workforce

The U.S. economy surprised analysts by adding 467,000 jobs in January, overcoming concerns about the COVID-19 omicron variant and continuing a long streak of...
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