Rhode Island Employment Snapshot, March 2014: A Boom Without Tremors
The headline for Rhode Island’s employment picture for March is that the unemployment rate slid all the way down to 8.7% (still last in the nation, though). You’d be hard […]
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The headline for Rhode Island’s employment picture for March is that the unemployment rate slid all the way down to 8.7% (still last in the nation, though). You’d be hard […]
Rhode Island’s employment picture for February gives a positive impression, on first look. Put in the contexts of the past and of the country, however, it’s not quite as sunny. […]
Download report (PDF) Published in Cooperation with the Beacon Hill Institute Deepwater Impact On December 13th, National Grid supplied new details about its contract with Deepwater Wind to purchase power […]
Rhode Island’s 9.2% unemployment rate is worst in the nation by a half-percentage-point margin. No other state really comes close. Worse yet, for the first time since we started tracking […]
Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in Rhode Island, with both the health benefits exchange (called HealthSource RI) and the expansion of Medicaid to cover able-bodied low-income adults, has […]
The bleakest aspect of the latest employment report from the national Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is that Rhode Island is now all alone in last place. Whereas the Ocean […]
HealthSource RI has published its enrollment numbers from its opening to January 4, after the deadline to enroll for January coverage. In continuation of our series putting the number in […]
For the first time in years, Rhode Island’s population grew in 2013, but that’s not necessarily a positive outcome.
Rhode Island’s unemployment rate fell to 9.0% in November, but that wasn’t enough to keep the state from falling to status as tied for worst.
With HealthSource RI’s release of its latest enrollment data, we herewith update our post from last month, breaking down the per-beneficiary expense in federal grants by various categories.
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