Governor recognizes 19 Real Jobs RI participants

GOV. GINA M. RAIMONDO recognized 19 Real Jobs Rhode Island graduates at a ribbon cutting ceremony Friday morning for a new training and education classroom at Johnnycake Center. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY
GOV. GINA M. RAIMONDO recognized 19 Real Jobs Rhode Island graduates at a ribbon cutting ceremony Friday morning for a new training and education classroom at Johnnycake Center. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

WESTERLY – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo recognized 19 Real Jobs Rhode Island graduates at a ribbon cutting ceremony Friday morning for a new training and education classroom at Johnnycake Center.

The graduates completed the five-week long Westerly Regional Real Jobs Partnership program which offers classes in digital literacy, and other job readiness skills like effective communication and customer service orientation, to the unemployed and underemployed.

Also in attendance at the ribbon cutting were Senate Minority Leader Dennis L. Algiere and state Rep. Samuel A. Azzinaro.

On Thursday, one day prior to the ceremony, the Rhode Island unemployment rate was published. Remaining unchanged at 5.4 percent, 2,700 Rhode Island-based jobs were added to the market in the month of March which Raimondo called “encouraging.”

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“Not since September 1997 has the Rhode Island economy added this many jobs – 2,700 jobs – in one month. We need to keep going. We will continue to act with urgency to build skills, strengthen our neighborhood schools, make it cheaper and easier to do business, invest in growth, and move to a new economy with high-wage jobs so everyone can make it in Rhode Island,” she said.

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