Rhode Island’s minimum wage increased from $7.40 to $7.75 Jan. 1, the first time the state has enacted an increase since 2007. Among the 10 states that instituted similar hikes this year, Rhode Island saw the largest increase. Rhode Island’s minimum wage increase was mandated by legislation passed ...
Rhode Island’s population has been steadily decreasing since 2004, according to a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau. Sixteen of Rhode Island’s 32 cities and towns lost residents, according to data from the 2010 census. Middletown and Newport experienced the greatest population declines, ...
Legal pollution emissions increased in Rhode Island by nearly 0.5 percent in 2011, according to data from the Environmental Protection Agency, while there was a 0.09 percent overall decrease in New England. The region emitted 18.96 million pounds of legal pollutants last year, according to the EPA. “The ...
Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 proposed no tax increases of any kind in his State of the State address Jan. 17, despite having spent much of his first two years in office plagued by an ailing economy and confronting budget deficits. Toward the end of the speech, Chafee reiterated his desire to see ...
The number of citizens in need of food aid in November was the highest recorded in state history, according to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank's "2012 Status Report on Hunger in Rhode Island" released last month. The report showed approximately 24 percent of Rhode Island households are recipients ...
Six months after the University settled negotiations with Providence Mayor Angel Taveras - through an agreement that increased Brown's voluntary contributions to the city in lieu of taxes, amid criticism from both students and city residents - the administration released a comprehensive report last ...
Despite the progress made by President Obama's health care reform law, the United States still faces significant challenges in improving the quality of its health care, according to three panelists who spoke at a forum on the future of health care reform last night. Christopher Koller, Rhode Island ...
Three leading voices in Rhode Island media discussed the state of local and national politics in a panel discussion organized by Common Cause Rhode Island and the Providence Athenaeum Tuesday evening.
Hasbro, Inc. is expected to move into a newly-renovated building on LaSalle Street in downtown Providence Jan. 2, bringing 284 new full-time jobs and $24 million in investments to the city in the process. Famous for brands such as Furby, Playskool and Monopoly, the Pawtucket-based company was started ...
Sen. Paul Jabour, D-Providence, recently announced his intent to introduce legislation that would increase the training required to become an election poll worker. The move comes after polling places in Providence experienced long lines during November's election, Jabour said. Some citizens in Jabour's ...
Frank D. Spaziano Elementary School recently became the only school in the Providence Public School District to vote in favor of becoming a district charter school. On Friday afternoon, the elementary school formally filed its application with the Rhode Island Department of Education, one day before ...
Providence is developing a plan for monitoring and increasing literacy among young children, earning the city one of 20 finalist spots in the Bloomberg Philanthropies' Mayors Challenge, Mayor Angel Taveras announced in a Nov. 5 press conference. The Mayors Challenge aims to "spread proven and ...
Along with freezing temperatures, winter also brings a host of festive holiday activities to Providence. The Bank of America City Center, Providence's downtown outdoor skating rink located next to Kennedy Plaza and Burnside Park, opened Nov. 21. The rink is open 10 a.m. Monday through Friday and 11 ...
Last year, approximately 10,000 victims reported incidents of domestic abuse in Rhode Island.
Harrington Hall in Cranston is home to the largest men's homeless shelter in Rhode Island, a state that saw its rates of foreclosure grow dramatically during the recent recession. A swirl of legislative and social controversy arose in October, when Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 made the executive decision ...
Though the nation's unemployment rate rose slightly last month, the Ocean State's unemployment rate dropped slightly for the sixth consecutive month, falling from 10.5 to 10.4 percent, according to reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But despite this progress, Rhode Island still has the second-highest ...
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