Tag: unemployment rate
BLS: R.I. unemployment rate highest in N.E. in Dec.
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s 3.8 percent nonseasonally adjusted unemployment rate in December was the highest in New England, according to the Bureau of Labor...
R.I. unemployment rate second highest in N.E. despite fastest decline
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s unemployment rate declined 0.7 percentage points year over year in November, the largest percentage-point decline in New England, to 3.8...
Unemployment rate declines at fastest pace in N.E. in Oct., remains...
PROVIDENCE – The 0.7 percentage point year-over-year decline in Rhode Island’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was the largest among New England states, falling to...
Has your company added employees in the last three-and-a-half years?
Since Gov. Gina M. Raimondo took office in January 2015, the unemployment rate in Rhode Island has gone from 6.6 percent to 4 percent...
Opinion: Emotions and economics explain stagnant wages
NEW YORK – The labor market appears to be quite strong, judging by June’s unemployment figures. The rate ticked up in June to 4...
Providence metro unemployment 3.9% in May
PROVIDENCE – The unemployment rate in the Providence-Warwick-Fall River metropolitan area was 3.9 percent in May, not seasonally adjusted, a 0.2 percentage point decline...
Report: R.I. ranks low for best states to make a living
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island ranked No. 39 on a list of best and worst states to make a living 2018 report released by Moneyrates.com.
The...
Economic progress, backsliding and confusion coexist in R.I.
While the numbers don’t lie, it would seem they often don’t tell a very clear story, either. So it is with a snapshot of...
No budge in R.I. unemployment rate
PROVIDENCE – For a third consecutive month in February, Rhode Island’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate held at 4.5 percent, per a report released by...
R.I., Conn. have highest jobless rates in N.E. in Jan.
PROVIDENCE – At 4.5 percent, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates in Rhode Island and Connecticut in January were the two worst performers in the...
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