The rate of home foreclosures climbed in the third quarter of 2009, both nationally and in Rhode Island, as experts say the mortgage crisis is now striking people who had good credit histories, but can no longer pay their bills because they have lost their jobs.
"This started as a real" [...]
As far as I can tell, the "good jobs accomplishments" section of Gov. Don Carcieri's website hasn't been updated since before the 2006 election. That is telling.
Perhaps the web editor was laid off?
PS. If the website is taken down for any reason, you [...]
The union representing about 120 workers at a Lincoln-based warehouse distribution center for Liz Claiborne Inc.'s jewelry division said Friday it has been informed by the company that the facility will be shut down this spring and the operations moved to another state, possibly Ohio.
Warren Pepicelli, a negotiator for the [...]
Update: Yet again the BeloJo editorial board and your humble blogger are in accord with a sense of bewildered amazement at the City of Providence's attempts "to Kelo" the jobs on Allens Ave.
An ordinance just introduced before the City Council would authorize the Providence Redevelopment [...]
The new unemployment numbers are out, and they’re not very pleasing…
The national unemployment rate jumped higher than expected in October, reaching a 26-year high at 10.2 percent.
Another 190,000 jobs were lost last month. The administration and economists predicted the unemployment rate would eventually rise above [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Convention Center Authority filed a federal lawsuit against the city this week contesting a recently passed city ordinance requiring that the convention center, the Dunkin' Donuts Center, the Veterans Memorial Auditorium, and three downtown hotels to retain employees for up to' [...]
MinuteClinic will move its headquarters next year from Minneapolis to Woonsocket, R.I, eliminating 150 jobs in Minneapolis, the Star-Tribune newspaper there reported in Wednesday's edition.
The company pioneered low-cost kiosks staffed by nurse practitioners in 2000 in Minnesota, spawning a national industry in retail clinics. Woonsocket-based CVS Caremark Corp. [...]
SMITHFIELD, R.I. -- A year after acquiring California-based Dioptics Medical Products, FGX International has announced it is shutting down the distribution center there and laying off 70 percent of the work force.
The eyewear manufacturing company, best known for its Foster Grant line of sunglasses, plans to eliminate some 45 [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The federal stimulus package has created or saved 1,489 jobs in Rhode Island, according to revised figures released by Governor Carcieri's office on Friday.
The latest number is lower than the figure of 1,703 positions reported by the state two weeks ago. It was revised downward mainly [...]
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) -- Gov. Deval Patrick is expected to deliver some grim news about the state budget.
Patrick is scheduled to be in Worcester on Thursday where he will announce how he will cut $600 million from the budget that could include the elimination of 2,000 state jobs.
The state had [...]
Update: I'm glad to see that the BeloJo editorial board agrees:
Now it seems that people who may have forgotten that the city even had a working waterfront are talking up its recently redredged channel, excellent intermodal rail and Interstate Highway System connections, generous cargo-handling area and the advantages of [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Jack Reed has been made chairman of a key Senate panel with jurisdiction over Navy shipbuilding, a significant assignment for the Democrat from Rhode Island, which depends on the industry for many jobs.
Reed will take the chair of the Seapower Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee, [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday said it has filed a discrimination complaint against health-services giant CVS Caremark Corp., claiming the Woonsocket-based company asks people who apply for jobs online questions that violate state and federal law.
In a complaint [...]
Word from the New York Times that the newspaper will cut 100 newsroom jobs by the end of the year - through buyouts and, if necessary, layoffs.
Times executives, who chopped 100 newsroom jobs in the spring of 2008, had predicted that they would not have to slice from the newsroom [...]
BOSTON (AP) -- Gov. Deval Patrick is asking state unions to accept furlough days and other concessions to avoid layoffs of up to 2,000 state workers before the end of the year.
The governor is weighing a series of cuts after tax revenues for the first few months of the fiscal [...]
1. For a long, long time, everyone has known that Rhode Island had as much an addiction to blue collar manufacturing jobs as states like Ohio and Michigan.
2. More than 20 years ago, these jobs began moving South and overseas.
3. Government officials failed to create training programs for these long-time [...]
On Main Street people are selfishly preoccupied with whether they will keep their jobs and health insurance, whether they can help their kids through college– boring stuff like that. But they fail to realize how hurtful and threatening this economy is to the rich... [...] PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Nearly all of the 1,700 state jobs that have been paid for by federal stimulus money come from five departments, state officials said Friday afternoon.
On Thursday -- the same day federal authorities reported that direct federal spending has created only six jobs in Rhode Island -- the [...]
To the delight of bosses across the state, Rachel Miller, the long time director of Rhode Island Jobs with Justice, has decided to move on to bigger and better things. Rachel's work with RI JWJ was extraordinary; she took a rag tag bunch of miscreants and [...] On the local front:
A year ago today:
Rhode Island's recession deepens as employers slash payrolls for the ninth straight month and the state unemployment rate last month climbed to 8.8 percent, its highest level in 16 years, a government report released today shows. Jobs in September shrank by 1,300 and [...]
