Tag: The Economic Progress Institute
Report: R.I. comprised of mostly small, micro businesses
PROVIDENCE – The smallest state in the nation is powered by small businesses.
Nearly 99% of Rhode Island’s businesses are small businesses or micro businesses,...
Report: Many R.I. residents struggling to make ends meet
PROVIDENCE – Many Rhode Island residents, especially Black and Latino households, still struggle to make ends meet, according to the biannual Rhode Island Standard...
Hospitality’s headache: How to attract, keep workers
Erin Umbdenstock spent her four-month stint of unemployment trying to keep busy.
She cooked and cleaned her Coventry apartment and took up several new hobbies....
McKee committed to PPP taxation over $150K
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee's proposal to tax forgiven Paycheck Protection Program loans greater than $150,000 would generate an estimated $67.7 million in revenue...
Report: Essential workers continue to struggle to make ends meet
PROVIDENCE – Many of Rhode Island's families were already living from one paycheck to the next prior to the pandemic taking over the economy...
Five Questions With Jim Vincent
Jim Vincent | President, NAACP Providence Branch
1. What is on top of the NAACP Providence Branch agenda? Gentrification in Providence is on the rise,...
Paying for badly needed school upgrades now will limit future borrowing....
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...
Rhode Island bizs could lose under ACA repeal
While the national debate about the future of health care rages on in Washington, D.C., local employers are left to grapple with how repealing...
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