Tag: Covid-19 Pandemic
Johnson’s made it her business to be a classroom ‘coach’
It’s a weekday afternoon at Sylvan Learning Center, and students large and small hover on cushioned chairs around little tables.
One group of high school...
Everybody’s Business: Minority owners resilient in face of uncertainty
Providence Business News’ Everybody’s Business monthly series began with the intention of providing a voice to minority business owners in the tumultuous summer of...
An equity check: ‘Much of this movement is being dismantled’
Nina Reed’s bakery products are popular, but that doesn’t mean running her business has been a piece of cake.
Reed, the owner of Sarcastic Sweets...
Few signs of cooling in luxury rental market
These days, most of the prospective homebuyers who call real estate agent Kira Greene aren’t from Rhode Island, and in a strange way, that...
Divided views on for-profit company buying R.I. nursing homes
Two struggling skilled nursing facilities are on track to be sold to a Massachusetts-based company, reigniting the debate over whether businesses looking to maximize...
PBN SURVEY: Economy, election putting business on edge
Rhode Islanders aren’t throwing parties like they used to just a year ago. At least, that’s the way Ines Gentile sees it.
Gentile is a...
R.I. Food Bank distributes record amount of food in FY2024
PROVIDENCE – Last fiscal year saw record numbers of food distributed by the Rhode Island Community Food Bank and the need for food within...
R.I. reenters Nurse Licensure Compact to stave off potential hospital staff...
After seeing what the shortage of health care workers did to Rhode Island hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state decided to reenter the...
Business travel
How often do you travel for business during a given calendar year?
At least once per month: 38%
At least once per year: 38%
Once every six...
Home-based workers became younger, more diverse in pandemic
People working from home became younger, more diverse, better educated and more likely to move during the worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic, according...
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