Tag: Pandemic
‘I felt like I owed my state’
Studying for a career in nursing during the COVID-19 pandemic at the New England Institute of Technology created a lot of uncertainty for Ranishia...
Rhode to Work open in R.I.
Where there is need, there is opportunity.
For job seekers, that’s especially true in a host of local industries spotlighted in PBN’s inaugural Rhode to...
Child poverty in the U.S. jumped and income declined in 2022...
Child poverty in the United States more than doubled and median household income declined last year when coronavirus pandemic-era government benefits expired and inflation...
R.I. part of interstate pact key to mental telehealth
Providing mental health care to patients out of state has been a conundrum facing Rhode Island practitioners for as many years as there have...
Report: 7,000 R.I. residents removed from Medicaid since April
PROVIDENCE – So far, 7,000 Rhode Island residents have been removed from Medicaid since April 1, when the state began a renewal process that...
R.I. tourism stays local: Regional campaigns lead the way this summer
Just days before the start of the high season in Newport in early July, local tourism officials gathered to talk status and strategy.
At the...
Connect with R.I. Commerce
Business owners have often grumbled about a lack of accessibility of state economic-development leaders. Rhode Island, however, is certainly not so small as to...
Strive for inclusivity
Margaret J. Hartigan
Marstone Inc. co-founder and CEO
It is often said that necessity is the mother of all invention. The innovation born out...
Pandemic fallout taking toll on commercial real estate
The COVID-19 pandemic has ended but the economic fallout is ongoing in some sectors of the economy, including commercial real estate.
Owners and lenders invested...
The Great Grift: More than $200B in COVID-19 aid may have...
WASHINGTON (AP) – More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives, according to new estimates from a federal...
















