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Health insurance costs going from bad to worse

Commentary 07/04/2025

Skyrocketing health insurance rates, expensive government mandates and new taxes on insurance premiums – all these things play a role in fewer Rhode Island...

MICHAEL DIBIASE has been appointed president and CEO of RIPEC effective Jan. 1. / COURTESY R.I. DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION

DiBiase named CEO and president of RIPEC

Government 10/22/2019

PROVIDENCE – Michael DiBiase has been named president and CEO of the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council, succeeding John C. Simmons, the nonprofit public...

Simmons to leave RIPEC at end of year

Business Services 07/26/2019

PROVIDENCE – John C. Simmons will step down from his post as CEO and president of the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council at the...

JOHN C. SIMMONS will depart from his role as CEO and president of the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council by the end of 2019. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Simmons to leave RIPEC at end of year

People 07/23/2019

PROVIDENCE – John C. Simmons will step down from his post as CEO and president of the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council at the...

JOHN C. SIMMONS, executive director of the Rhode Island Public Expenditures Council. RIPEC released a fiscal 2016 expenditure assessment Friday. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

RIPEC: R.I. FY16 direct general expenditure ranks in highest half of...

Economic Activity 12/14/2018

PROVIDENCE – In fiscal 2016, Rhode Island was among the top half of highest spending states in the nation per $1,000 of personal income...

JOHN C. SIMMONS, executive director of the Rhode Island Public Expenditures Council, released the 2018 edition of the nonprofit's series on how public revenue collections in the Ocean State compare with the rest of the nation. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

RIPEC: R.I. seventh-highest in U.S. for tax collections per $1K of...

Economic Activity 11/16/2018

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island ranked No. 7 in the nation for highest state and local taxes collected per $1,000 of personal income at $109.47,...

THE RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC EXPENDITURE COUNCIL has released a summary and projection of factors it considers important in relation to the three general obligation bond ballot initiatives included in the upcoming election.

RIPEC issues breakdown of state debt, revenue and bond referendums

Economic Activity 10/26/2018

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council released a report Friday that analyzed the state’s budget outlook, debt position and their relation to...

PROBLEM AREA: The structural problems at Rogers High School in Newport are evident in the water-infiltration damage, which has affected both the interior and exterior of the building, which was completed in 1958. Jeff Watts, the school’s plant engineer, looks at one of the affected areas outside. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Paying for badly needed school upgrades now will limit future borrowing....

Cover Story 05/25/2018

Trinity Briceno, a senior at Cranston East High School, didn’t attend school between December and April. She was hospitalized in November after students and teachers...

A PHOTO OF the state capitol is taken from the Statehouse lawn in Providence./ COURTESY JACK NEWTON

Rhode Island lawmakers mull $6.6M unemployment insurance scoop

Financial Services 03/09/2018

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island lawmakers are mulling a controversial proposal to dip into a near-$500 million unemployment insurance fund to pay for a popular...