Posted on July 20, 2010
Author and corporate financial management expert Domenic Sgambellone is offering some sound office about creating jobs in Rhode Island. Unemployment, illegal immigration, budget deficits, and economic trends continue to dominate the daily news with a variety of opinions. One such informative and frank voice is Sgambellone (pronounced skam-bell-own-ee), a corporate financial management expert by trade, […]
Posted on July 13, 2010
A new study shows that Rhode Island jobs were added during the month of May. Online advertised vacancies inched up by 19,600 in June to 4,154,000 following a small decline in May, according to The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine (HWOL) Data Series released today. The gap between the number of unemployed and advertised vacancies […]
Posted on July 8, 2010
Jobs Now RI, an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act program, has been enacted with encouraging results due to the creation of many new jobs in Rhode Island. Jobs Now Rhode Island is a jobs creation program that will, for a limited time, reimburse business 100 percent of wages for qualifying hires. The program was created […]
Posted on May 16, 2010
A $10 million federally job program that was intended to boost the Providence economy has not created any Rhode Island jobs to date (click here). The program was unveiled three months ago by Providence Mayor David Cicilline. Jobs Now is reportedly still under review by the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children […]
Posted on May 2, 2010
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is projected to save thousands of jobs in Rhode Island (click here). The Act has been responsible for creating or saving 11,000 jobs in Rhode Island since its signing in February 2009, the Obama administration said Friday. According to PBN.com, that would be 2.4 percent of the 452,500 non-farm […]
Posted on April 19, 2010
Clariant Corp., a pigment plant, has announced that they are relocating sales and technical jobs in Rhode Island to its North American headquarters in Charlotte by the end of the third quarter. According to PlasticsNews.com, Coventry was a pigments plant until it was shut at the end of 2008. Remaining staff there supported Clairants pigments and […]
Posted on April 13, 2010
Kent Hospital has laid off all 46 licensed practical nurses and announced that it would outsource its rehabilitation services, as the Warwick hospital grappled with declining patient volume, a move that will decrease available Rhode Island healthcare jobs (click here). According to ProJo.com, both changes had been in the works for some time, however. Kent plans […]
Posted on March 25, 2010
Brown University is cutting 60 Rhode Island teaching jobs by June to help close a $30 million projected budget gap for the next fiscal year after endowment losses. But the jobs are non-faculty related. Browns roughly 3,000 non-faculty staff members were informed of the job cuts in an e-mail sent Monday. The individuals who will lose […]
Posted on March 3, 2010
Good news for job seekers: according to the Examiner.com, the United States Census Bureau has created many available jobs in Rhode Island (click here). The U.S. Census Bureau is hiring several recruiting assistants in Rhode Island. According to the Census Bureau, it is preferable that the applicant be bilingual in English and at least one […]
Posted on February 10, 2010
The first state-coordinated plan to develop a green economy recommends creating an energy strategy for RI, thereby sparking the creation of a plethora of green jobs in Rhode Island. According to ProJo.com, this will expand sources of funding for clean technology companies and setting up worker-training programs, in the hope that the new initiatives can contribute to an economic […]
