Tag: Unemployment
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.
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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,...
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.
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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...
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...

















