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How to manage the elevated quit rate

Finding good employees has always been a challenge – but these days it’s harder than ever. And it is unlikely to improve anytime soon. The...

R.I. unemployment rate ticks up to 5.4% amid largest monthly...

PROVIDENCE – The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate edged higher in October as the number of jobs fell for the first time this year,...
EASING IN: Gov. Daniel J. McKee supports letting the unemployed and underemployed ease back into the workforce, so they can continue to collect unemployment benefits while working part time. Several other states are moving to end supplemental weekly $300 payments to encourage more people to consider available jobs. / AP PHOTO/
PAUL SAKUMA

Why do you think more people have not returned to the...

The end of supplementary federal aid to the unemployed has not brought as many Americans back to work as some business groups had hoped. A...
ON THE HUNT: Graham Berryman looks at his laptop at his apartment in Springfield, Mo. He is a lawyer who has struggled to find work during the pandemic after he was let go by his previous firm in August 2020. He has lived off savings. / AP PHOTO/BRUCE E. STIDHAM

Where are workers now that jobless aid is gone?

Earlier this year, an insistent cry arose from business leaders and Republican governors: Cut off a $300-a-week federal supplement for unemployed Americans. Many people,...

Where are the workers? Cutoff of jobless aid spurs no influx

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Earlier this year, an insistent cry arose from business leaders and Republican governors: Cut off a $300-a-week federal supplement for unemployed...

R.I.’s September unemployment rate tied for 2nd highest in N.E.

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island tied for the second highest unemployment rate in New England in September at 5.2%, according data released by the U.S....

R.I. unemployment rate declines to 5.2% in Sept.

PROVIDENCE – The unemployment rate in Rhode Island was 5.2% in September, a decline from 5.8% in August and 10.9% one year prior, the...

R.I. still has 2nd-highest jobless rate in region despite sharp Y/Y...

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island continued to have the second-highest unemployment rate in New England in August at 5.8%, higher than the national rate of...
THE RHODE ISLAND unemployment rate was 5.8% in August, an increase of 0.1 percentage points from July, but a decline from 12.6% in August 2020. / AP FILE PHOTO/PAUL SAKUMA

R.I. unemployment rate edges upward in August

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island's economic recovery appears to have stagnated in August. The state unemployment rate was 5.8% in August, an increase from 5.7% in...

Jobless Americans will have few options as benefits expire

NEW YORK (AP) – Millions of jobless Americans lost their unemployment benefits on Monday, leaving only a handful of economic support programs for those...
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