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TRAINING DAYS: Brown University medical students Anthony Formicola, left, and Thi My Linh Tran talk while on duty on the labor and delivery floor at Care New England Health System’s Women & Infants Hospital in Providence. / COURTESY CARE NEW ENGLAND HEALTH SYSTEM/RYAN PICKERING

Brown’s prescription: Will latest failed merger end the university’s bid for...

Cover Story 04/01/2022

The dream, as Brown University leaders described it, included Providence’s Jewelry District filled with biotech companies spun off from discoveries made by an “integrated...

MEMBERS OF the United Food and Commercial Workers Local Union 328 hold a one-day strike outside the Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center in Portsmouth last June to protest what union members said was an unfair labor practice. Federal labor data indicates union membership among Rhode Island's workforce declined in 2021. / PBN FILE PHOTO/CASSIUS SHUMAN

Pandemic causing shifts in R.I. union membership

Coronavirus 03/25/2022

Rhode Island remains one of the most unionized states in the country, but the percentage of union members among its workforce dropped from 17.8%...

R.I. unemployment rate 3rd highest in New England

Business Services 03/14/2022

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island had the third-highest unemployment rate in New England in January at 4.2% but also was tied for the biggest monthly...

R.I. unemployment rate 3rd-highest in New England in 2021

Economic Activity 03/02/2022

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island had the third-highest unemployment rate in New England in 2021 at 5.6%, according to data released by the U.S. Bureau...

BLS: 16,000 R.I. workers quit in November, up 60% year over...

Economic Activity 02/10/2022

PROVIDENCE - Anthony Tarro doesn’t have to wrack his brain to recall the last time a worker quit. It was five days ago - a...

UNEASY FEELING: While Therese Sloane, a store leader for Ocean State Job Lot in North Kingstown, has gotten several raises during her time there, she is seeing expenses such as gas and utilities increase. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Economic forecast: Inflation putting squeeze on companies, workers

Economic Activity 01/07/2022

Daniel Shedd has always made it a point to offer competitive wages to the workers of his Warren manufacturing company, but what he used...

Report: R.I. has 5th-highest natural gas prices in the country

Economic Activity 01/04/2022

PROVIDENCE – Even before the recent wave of inflation drove up energy prices, Rhode Islanders were already paying more to heat their homes with...

FRAUD-PREVENTION COMPANY SEON ranked Rhode Island as a "fraud hot spot" for overall fraud rates and business fraud. / COURTESY SEON

R.I. ranked ‘fraud hot spot’ for overall reports, business fraud

Economic Activity 12/28/2021

PROVIDENCE – Fraud-prevention company SEON has noted Rhode Island as a “business fraud hot spot.” SEON, a fraud monitoring and prevention company with offices in...