Tag: Employment
MassBenchmarks: Mass. GDP grows at 1.6 percent in Q1
BOSTON – Massachusetts gross domestic product grew at a 1.6 percent annualized rate in the first quarter of 2018, according to MassBenchmarks, a journal...
Reports of retail’s death premature
Earlier this month, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., reacted to news of rising mall vacancies by calling for help for the “millions of workers who...
U.S. unemployment headed below 3% unless Fed acts to slow growth
WASHINGTON – U.S. unemployment is primed to fall significantly further and could drop below 3 percent for the first time since 1953, the year...
U.S. added 313,000 jobs in February; wage gains slow to 2.6%
WASHINGTON – U.S. employers added the most workers since mid-2016 as labor-force participation swelled, while below-forecast wages and a downward revision to January’s figure suggest...
Report: R.I. arts and cultural production accounted for $2B in 2015
PROVIDENCE -The Rhode Island arts and cultural production industries accounted for $1.8 billion of economic activity in 2015, about 3.3 percent of the total...
Restaurant boom fizzles
Employment at food services and drinking places rebounded strongly in October as waiters, cooks and bartenders in hurricane-ravaged Florida and Texas went to work....
Health, education see slow growth in R.I.
Lackluster growth in health and education employment could spell trouble for the Ocean State, where job gains or losses in any segment of the...
Report: Providence metro unemployment 4.3% in August
PROVIDENCE – Unemployment, not seasonally adjusted, in the Providence metropolitan area decreased 0.9 percentage points year over year to 4.3 percent in August, according...
R.I. August unemployment falls fastest in New England
PROVIDENCE - The unemployment rate in Rhode Island in August was the second-highest in New England but declined by a greater rate than any...
Is the state doing enough to combat its growing inventory of...
While the Ocean State continues to rank highly in the nation for year-over-year growth in construction industry employment, it is still far behind its...
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