Tag: Unemployment
BLS: Providence metro unemployment 4.8% in March
PROVIDENCE – Unemployment in the Providence-Warwick-Fall River metropolitan area declined 0.2 percentage points year over year in March to 4.8 percent, not seasonally adjusted,...
MassBenchmarks: Mass. GDP grows at 1.6 percent in Q1
BOSTON – Massachusetts gross domestic product grew at a 1.6 percent annualized rate in the first quarter of 2018, according to MassBenchmarks, a journal...
After revision, R.I. unemployment rate ticks back to 4.5%
PROVIDENCE – While the February seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was revised to 4.6 percent from 4.5 percent, per a Thursday R.I. Department of Labor...
Providence metro unemployment ticks down, payrolls up in Feb.
PROVIDENCE – Unemployment in the Providence-Warwick-Fall River metropolitan area declined 0.1 percentage points year over year, not seasonally adjusted, to 5.3 percent in February,...
Report: Providence metro labor force ticks up in January
PROVIDENCE – The Providence-Warwick-Fall River metropolitan area saw an upswing in labor force and a downswing of individuals in the unemployment line year over...
U.S. unemployment headed below 3% unless Fed acts to slow growth
WASHINGTON – U.S. unemployment is primed to fall significantly further and could drop below 3 percent for the first time since 1953, the year...
January 2018 unemployment rate holds fast at 4.5 percent
PROVIDENCE – The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Rhode Island held steady at 4.5 percent in January, according to a Thursday release from the...
BLS: R.I. avg. 2017 unemployment declines, employment-population ratio ticks up
PROVIDENCE – The average unemployment rate in Rhode Island in 2017 was 4.5 percent, a 0.7 percentage point decline from the state’s 2016 average...
Providence metro unemployment ticked down in Dec.
PROVIDENCE – The non-seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in the Providence-Warwick-Fall River metropolitan area declined 0.1 percentage points year over year to 4.1 percent in December,...
R.I. unemployment rate climbs for second consecutive month
PROVIDENCE – In a second consecutive month, Rhode Island’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate climbed 0.1 percent to 4.4 percent in December, according to a...
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