Tag: Covid-19
Training on core skills still crucial in crisis
While many workforce-development initiatives in Rhode Island are aimed at training people in highly skilled labor, such as pipefitting and computer-assisted manufacturing, others seek...
Embrace pandemic challenges
We’ve all heard the proverb, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” In business rarely does it ring truer than in a financial crisis.
The COVID-19...
Why are corporations voluntarily pitching in?
Severe shortages of critical medical supplies have prompted governments to compel private companies to fill the gap. In the U.S., President Donald Trump invoked...
Five Questions With: Dr. Alan Kurose
Dr. Alan Kurose | CEO and president, Coastal Medical Inc.
1. Do you expect to see any changes, particularly with telemedicine, in Coastal’s primary...
Woonsocket printer displays new COVID-19-inspired skill
For three generations, Sheahan Printing Corp. has focused on the commercial printing needs of its business and nonprofit customers, everything from rack cards and...
Amid COVID-19, employers need to change hiring approach
As Rhode Island begins kick-starting recovery efforts, employers need to start thinking about their hiring plans.
More than 230,000 Rhode Islanders have filed for unemployment...
We need to preserve this pandemic memory
Just below the Japanese village of Aneyoshi, there’s a stone carved with a warning: “Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build...
Online shopping therapy reaching new heights
BVtween technical glitches and food worries, retail therapy and sheer amnesia, something has happened to shopping during the pandemic that can be summed up...
Bristol County, Mass., sees rise in deaths by suicide over previous...
NEW BEDFORD – Bristol County, Mass., is experiencing a rise in the number of deaths by suicide compared with this time in previous years,...
DLT: Hospitality, food jobs hardest hit by COVID-19 in R.I.
PROVIDENCE – The three industries in Rhode Island hardest hit by unemployment claims during the COVID-19 crisis are accommodation and food services, health care...
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