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 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 February 17, 2010
Starpoint Solutions, a staffing firm, is looking to hire 20 to 60 people for IT jobs in Rhode Island. Starpoint Solutions is based in New York and is looking to hire up to 70 people in Rhode Island, with 20 to 60 being in the IT arena. Five to 10 sales people and recruiters will […]
Posted on June 16, 2009
It could take more than half a decade for Providence jobs to recover to a pre-recession level. A new report from IHS Global Insight predicts that unemployment in the Providence-Fall River-Warwick area will not return to its pre-recession rate until after 2014. The report also predicts that Rhode Island‘s annual rate of job growth will […]
