Tag: U.S. Census Bureau
Report: R.I. has 5th-highest natural gas prices in the country
PROVIDENCE – Even before the recent wave of inflation drove up energy prices, Rhode Islanders were already paying more to heat their homes with...
Report: Stimulus checks, expanded UI help 17.2M people avoid poverty in...
PROVIDENCE – Federal stimulus checks and expanded unemployment insurance during the pandemic together kept 17.2 million people out of poverty in 2020, according to...
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...
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