Tag: Employers
PBN unveils series on R.I. makers
Among Rhode Island’s more than 1,500 manufacturers, Jade Manufacturing Co. doesn’t stand out in the typical ways companies do.
It’s not the biggest employer, the...
Employers must set the standard for impairment under marijuana law
Once Massachusetts, then Connecticut legalized recreational use of marijuana by adults, local business leaders who have long opposed it knew Rhode Island would eventually...
U.S. consumer inflation up 6.8% in past year, most since 1982
WASHINGTON (AP) – Prices for U.S. consumers jumped 6.8% in November compared with a year earlier as surging costs for food, energy, housing and...
Employers have role in testing
Most local employers have already greatly contributed to controlling the spread of COVID-19 by following – and in many cases exceeding – state workplace...
Loan repayment helps employers compete
Jacques Afonso, a manager of community and customer management for National Grid Rhode Island, had worked for the utility for almost a decade when...
America’s got talent, not just in the Ivies
It’s a powerful myth that our college admissions process has superhuman predictive powers. If you make the cut, you’re the talented 1 percent; miss...
Are your health care dollars wasted?
The 2019 health plan open-enrollment season is kicking off for many Rhode Island employers. Each year the rising cost of health care takes its...
Employers calling all workers
As American society increasingly self-sorts itself into political tribes, there’s a growing and noteworthy exception to that trend: the labor market. A rising share...
A B.A. isn’t the only way
Every year millions of Americans receive an asset that, based on past performance, promises to nearly double their lifetime incomes: a bachelor’s degree. Earning...
65 is new 55, and vice versa
The civilian, prime-working-age population in the U.S. has barely budged over the past decade.
The Wall Street Journal’s Lev Borodovsky, taking notice of this phenomenon,...
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