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COMPENSATION COSTS in the Boston-Worcester-Providence consolidated statistical area increased 2.7% year over year in September. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/LUKE SHARRETT

Compensation costs in Boston-Worcester-Providence area increase 2.7% Y/Y in Sept.

Economic Activity 10/31/2019

PROVIDENCE – Total compensation for private-industry workers, including wages, salaries and employer costs for employee benefits, increased 2.7% year over year in September in...

IN DEMAND: In order to keep up with construction-worker demand, Gilbane Building Co. has raised the wage for new hires and hourly pay for summer interns. Pictured on a job site are Danielle Crafford, general superintendent, and Mitchell Sinnott, pipe fitter.  / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Growing projects, added industries seeking workers leave construction pool thin

Focus 03/15/2019

Four months after the state’s voting public approved two statewide and eight local bond measures investing hundreds of millions of dollars into Rhode Island...

PROVIDENCE METRO AREA UNEMPLOYMENT in June declined 0.5 percentage points year over year to 3.8 percent on a non-seasonally adjusted basis. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/LUKE SHARRETT

Providence metro unemployment declines to 3.8% in June

Economic Activity 08/01/2018

PROVIDENCE – Unemployment in the Providence-Warwick-Fall River metropolitan area was 3.8 percent in June, a 0.5 percentage point drop from 4.3 percent in June...

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Advice 02/02/2018

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CPI IN THE NORTHEAST region increased by 1.7 percent year over year in October. / COURTESY BLS

BLS: N.E. CPI increased 1.7% in Oct.

Economic Activity 01/12/2018

PROVIDENCE – The consumer price index for all items in the Northeast region increased 1.7 percent year over year in October, not seasonally adjusted,...

RHODE ISLAND HAD THE highest unemployment rate in New England in January, along with Connecticut.

R.I. had 2nd highest unemployment in N.E. in Nov.

Economic Activity 12/22/2017

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island had the second highest November seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in New England, according to data released by the U.S. Bureau...

THE PROVIDENCE COUNTY average weekly wage rose 1.5 percent year over year to $1,016 in the second quarter of 2017. / COURTESY BLS

BLS: Providence County 2Q employment grew 0.5 percent

Economic Activity 12/05/2017

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...

RHODE ISLAND'S 1.1 percentage point decline in its unemployment rate from September 2016 to September 2017 was the third-largest among the states.

R.I. among national leaders in year-over-year jobless rate change

Economy 10/20/2017

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,...