Tag: U.S. Census Bureau
SBA state profile shows modest pre-pandemic small-business gains in Rhode Island
PROVIDENCE – On the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic, Rhode Island increased the total number of state small businesses but lost jobs over the...
Survey: Unvaccinated in R.I. worried about side effects, waiting to see...
PROVIDENCE – A majority of Rhode Islanders that said they would not get the COVID-19 vaccine said they were worried about side effects, and...
‘Community advocacy matters’
As recently as last summer, Rhode Island appeared all but certain to lose one of its two U.S. House seats.
For years, the state had...
Census Bureau: R.I. will not lose House seat as result of...
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island will not be losing one of its two seats in the U.S. House as a result of data from the...
R.I. KIDS COUNT: Pandemic worsens child food insecurity rate in R.I.
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island KIDS COUNT released Thursday its latest report on child hunger and nutrition in the Ocean State that found food insecurity...
Report: R.I. had No. 2 highest rate of poverty in N.E....
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island had the No.18 lowest poverty rate in the United States in 2019 but the second highest rate in New England...
Economic Progress Institute predicts move away from employer-based health insurance
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island ranked third in the nation in the lowest rate of residents that are not covered by health insurance in 2019,...
Shortened census count will hurt communities of color
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Census Bureau is having a harder time than in the past counting all Americans, and it is now...
Census ending data collection for 2020 count a month early
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – The U.S. Census Bureau is cutting its schedule for data collection for the 2020 census a month short as legislation...
R.I. census count enters crunch time
The coronavirus pandemic has made the difficult job of getting an accurate census count much harder at a time in which Rhode Island has...
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