Tag: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Northeast CPI rises 2.1% for year in April
PROVIDENCE – The Consumer Price Index in the Northeast United States increased 2.1 percent year over year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor...
BLS: Providence metro unemployment 4.8% in March
PROVIDENCE – Unemployment in the Providence-Warwick-Fall River metropolitan area declined 0.2 percentage points year over year in March to 4.8 percent, not seasonally adjusted,...
BLS: R.I. nets job loss in 2017 Q3
PROVIDENCE – In Rhode Island, net employment decreased by 1,671 jobs in the third quarter of 2017, adding 24,892 gross jobs while reporting a...
Northeast CPI rises 2% in March
PROVIDENCE – The Northeast Consumer Price Index increased 2 percent year over year in March, not seasonally adjusted, slower than the national United States...
Manufacturing jobs are still pretty good jobs
In November 2014, the average hourly pay of production and nonsupervisory workers in durable goods manufacturing fell behind that of their peers in the...
Providence metro unemployment ticks down, payrolls up in Feb.
PROVIDENCE – Unemployment in the Providence-Warwick-Fall River metropolitan area declined 0.1 percentage points year over year, not seasonally adjusted, to 5.3 percent in February,...
BLS: N.E. employer compensation costs total $40.48 per hour in Dec.
PROVIDENCE – Private-industry employers in New England paid $40.48 per hour worked in combined wages, salary and benefits in December 2017, according to U.S....
Report: Providence metro labor force ticks up in January
PROVIDENCE – The Providence-Warwick-Fall River metropolitan area saw an upswing in labor force and a downswing of individuals in the unemployment line year over...
R.I., Conn. have highest jobless rates in N.E. in Jan.
PROVIDENCE – At 4.5 percent, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates in Rhode Island and Connecticut in January were the two worst performers in the...
BLS: R.I. avg. 2017 unemployment declines, employment-population ratio ticks up
PROVIDENCE – The average unemployment rate in Rhode Island in 2017 was 4.5 percent, a 0.7 percentage point decline from the state’s 2016 average...