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STUCK: Uber and Lyft driver Sean DeLong’s professional background in business-operations management doesn’t lend itself to highly technical jobs, but his education and experience over-qualify him for most low-wage jobs, which has made it difficult for him to find a job since being laid off in 2015. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Behind seemingly positive employment data is structural weakness that in the...

Economic Activity 07/14/2017

Sean DeLong, 42, has applied for more than 800 jobs in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts since November 2015. On average, he gets about one...

Rhode Island must pursue revenue growth

Government 06/02/2017

Chicken Little and the elephant in the room: Is the revenue sky really falling? As we approach the end of the 2017 General Assembly, there...

Who pays for R.I. car-tax cuts?

Government 04/14/2017

The car tax in Rhode Island is so unevenly collected and disproportionately important to town coffers that reducing it raises a host of secondary...

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