Tag: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS: Providence County 2Q employment grew 0.5 percent
PROVIDENCE – Employment in the 2017 second quarter (measured in June) in Providence County was 287,200, a 0.5 percent increase year over year, according...
R.I. among national leaders in year-over-year jobless rate change
WASHINGTON – Rhode Island had the third-largest year-over-year decline in its unemployment rate in the nation (and the largest in New England) in September,...
U.S. payrolls fall 33,000 on storms; jobless rate drops to 4.2%
NEW YORK - The number of workers on United States payrolls declined last month for the first time since 2010, reflecting major disruptions from...
R.I. August unemployment falls fastest in New England
PROVIDENCE - The unemployment rate in Rhode Island in August was the second-highest in New England but declined by a greater rate than any...
Northeast CPI up 1.7% in May
PROVIDENCE -The Northeast consumer price index for urban consumers rose by 1.7 percent in May year over year, according to the Bureau of Labor...
Why aren’t American teenagers working anymore?
NEW YORK - This summer American teenagers should find it a little easier to get a job—if they want one.
The U.S. unemployment rate fell to...
Providence metro’s unemployment rate falls to 4.8% in March
PROVIDENCE – The Providence-Warwick-Fall River metropolitan area was among 336 metropolitan areas with unemployment rates lower in March than they were in March 2016,...
R.I.’s unemployment rate highest in New England in 2016
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island had the highest unemployment rate in New England last year at 5.3 percent, which was higher than the overall New...
BLS: Providence metro unemployment rate drops in February to 5.1%
PROVIDENCE – Unemployment rates were lower in February than a year earlier in 274 of the nation's 388 metropolitan areas, including in the Providence-Warwick-Fall...