Tag: Great Recession
Leave UI fund alone, fund Real Jobs RI
Good intentions do not transform bad choices into good ones. Exhibit A now on display is the Raimondo administration’s proposal to take money from...
RBS will pay N.Y. $500M over bogus mortgage marketing
NEW YORK – Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC agreed to pay $500 million to settle New York’s probe into its marketing of toxic...
Report: R.I. recovery hindered by poor education and health services employment...
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s employment growth has lagged behind the rest of the nation following the Great Recession and, according to the Bureau of Labor...
For growth R.I. must add to labor force
Yes, there is a skills gap in today’s labor market. That is, there are many open positions that are not filled because the candidates...
Behind seemingly positive employment data is structural weakness that in the...
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...
RWU law grads go solo, as industry rebounds from recession
In the almost three years since he graduated from the Ocean State’s sole law school – Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol...
Raimondo approach doing one thing Chafee’s didn’t: create jobs
One thing about former Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee – he’s consistent. Sort of like how he described himself during the presidential campaign, a “block...
R.I. building permits last year exceeded 1K for first time since...
PROVIDENCE – Citing recently released U.S. Census Bureau data, WPRI-TV CBS 12 reported May 1 that new housing units authorized for construction in Rhode...
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