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Rhode Island and California posted preliminary, seasonally adjusted unemployment rates of 9.8 percent in January, the highest in the nation and significantly higher than the U.S. figure of 7.9 percent.
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Ever-wary local fishermen welcome the Sept. 13 U.S. Department of Commerce declaration of the New England groundfish fishery as a national disaster, but they wonder if any federal money that follows to Rhode Island will get to those who need it before it’s too late.
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By Michael Souza |
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The last time Rhode Island went national in its search for a chief economic-development executive, it offered an Arizona business consultant $250,000 per year, plus a car, to lead the state out of the financial crisis.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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(Updated, Feb. 28, 11:45 a.m.)
Three more members of the R.I. Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors have announced their intention to step down, bringing to eight the number who have left or asked off the board since last spring.
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Shannon Brawley, Nancy Carriuolo, Roland Fiore, Jason Kelly and George Nee are the latest to be nominated by Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee for the R.I. Economic Development Corporation board of directors, Chafee announced Thursday afternoon.
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At a press conference on Wednesday, Mayor Angel Taveras outlined a 20-step economic development action plan to “put Providence residents back to work and jump-start the economy of Rhode Island’s capital city.”
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At a board meeting at 8:30 Wednesday morning, the R.I. Turnpike and Bridge Authority voted unanimously to charge tolls on the new Sakonnet River Bridge and approved increased tolls on the Pell Bridge.
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Education Commissioner Deborah Gist on Tuesday called for investment and innovation in early learning, technology, and mathematics improvement, in her fourth annual State of Education address to the General Assembly.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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Leaders of the Rhode Island Health Insurance Small Employer Taskforce are calling for greater transparency in health care provider finances following the release of national data for the top 100 most frequently billed procedures under Medicare.
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By Richard Asinof |
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Still unable to pay its workers, 38 Studios LLC, the cash-strapped video game design firm founded by former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, has released a video trailer for its new game, code-named “Project Copernicus.”
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By Emily Greenhalgh |
