Tag: Workers
U.S. added just 114K jobs in July, unemployment rate hits 4.3%
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. hiring decelerated sharply last month in the face of high interest rates as employers added an unexpectedly weak 114,000 jobs.
Friday's Labor...
Pot shops need trained workforce
For any industry to grow, it needs a workforce pipeline.
So it is with the state’s budding cannabis industry. Last year it employed more than...
U.S. worker paycheck growth slowed late last year, suggesting cooling in...
WASHINGTON (AP) – Pay and benefits for America’s workers grew at the slowest pace in two and a half years, a trend that could...
Report: R.I. 14th overall best state for workers, 15th for working...
PROVIDENCE – Oxfam's latest report on U.S. working conditions by state placed Rhode Island as the 14th best state for workers overall, and the...
PBN survey: Businesses beat down but still fighting
The worst of the health-related ravages of the pandemic may be over nationally if you believe President Joe Biden. But the economic consequences continue...
Summit: Health system rebuild will take years
It can’t compare to the horror of a real war, such as in Ukraine, but health care systems have indeed been in a life-and-death...
BLS: Boston area workers see 2.9% annual earnings increase
PROVIDENCE – Workers in the Greater Boston-Providence-Worcester area saw pay and benefits increase 2.9% from March 2020 to March 2021, according to new data...
Return of PBN print edition one more sign of state’s slow...
This week’s issue marks the return of PBN’s print edition, one more sign of Rhode Island’s slow comeback from March’s near economic shutdown to...
As robots take over warehousing, workers pushed to adapt
NORTH HAVEN, Conn. (AP) – Robots haven't replaced warehouse workers yet, but they're here — and they need some human supervision.
Doing your job side-by-side...
Get workers in the boardroom
When legendary physicist Richard Feynman was called in to help solve the mystery of the Challenger space shuttle explosion in 1986, he didn’t use...
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