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Lila Rabinovich

There’s a financial literacy gender gap

EVery day, families across the U.S. have to make difficult decisions about budgeting, spending, insurance, investments, savings, retirement and on and on. When faced...
ALL IN: Citizens Financial Group Inc. has hired more than 100 people from the former First Republic Bank’s wealth management arm in order to launch its own private bank to service high-wealth clients. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/NICOLE ­DOTZENROD

Citizens looks to capitalize on its new private bank

When San Francisco-based First Republic Bank imploded last spring and its financial assets were sold to JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citizens Financial Group Inc....
HELP NEEDED: Khadija Lewis Khan, executive director of Providence’s Beautiful Beginnings Child Care Center, says the state’s child care system is underfunded. 
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MICHAEL SALERNO

‘She-cession’ over but gains in jeopardy

The troubling national exodus of women from the workforce in 2020 and 2021 has ended, at least in Rhode Island. That is certainly good...

Home rental storm is brewing

Legislative commission meetings held when the General Assembly is not in session are usually snoozers. But a special commission studying the state’s short-term rental industry...

A call to courage

Michelle Carr | Leadership Rhode Island executive director A courageous, authentic and human-centered approach to leadership is needed as we bear witness to the emergence...
Cassandra Thomas / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Five Questions With: Cassandra Thomas

5Q: Cassandra Thomas | Director of economic development, city of Providence 1. What are the greatest economic challenges facing the city and the best...
EDUCATION BEFORE ­MEDICATION: Jennifer Walter, nurse practitioner, left her primary care practice to open Renewed Health LLC in Cumberland to educate patients about the benefits of lifestyle and behavioral changes rather than prescribing medications. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

A unique approach to helping patients age well

After two decades in primary care, nurse practitioner Jennifer Walter has downsized in Cumberland. The founder and director of Renewed Health LLC, a boutique clinic...
DOUBLE LIFE: Rick Sunderland, a gym and health teacher at Classical High School, opened live music venue Dusk on Harris Avenue in Providence in 2010 because of a passion for live music and a desire to showcase musicians and artists. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

‘Creating a space for artists and musicians’ a labor of love...

Other than his 30 years as a Providence public school teacher, Rick Sunderland’s resume reads like a partial directory of Rhode Island nightclubs. Bon...

Questions raised over who should get ‘social equity’ cannabis licenses

After months of delays, Rhode Island’s cannabis market cleared crucial hurdles when the R.I. Cannabis Control Commission and Cannabis Advisory Board got off the...
GROUP CHAT: CliftonLarsonAllen LLP staffers gather for a conversation at the firm’s Cranston office. Pictured from left are Michelle Berkovitz, signing director; Michael Ung, assurance signing director; Donna Provost, tax senior; Tohib Giwa, business operations senior; and Brian Enverso and David Fontes, principals. 
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RUPERT WHITELEY

CliftonLarsonAllen celebrates employee outcomes to better serve clients

PBN Diversity Equity & Inclusion 2023 Awards Accounting: CLA MICHAEL UNG VIEWS diversity, equity and inclusion in three ways. Ung, assurance signing director at national accounting...
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