Rhode Island Unemployment

Workers in Rhode Island are experiencing an extremely tight and difficult job market, significantly worse than most other states.

Its quite simple, the industries that supported workers in this area of the country are gone. People trained to work skilled jobs in what were formally thriving Rhode Island industries are in a bind and nothing is coming into the State to replace that which is gone.

We are seeing the creation of these vast wasteland areas of the country. They are ghost lands. I hope some of these people can relocate to communities where work is not quite so difficult to come by. What else can they do?

McClatchy: Rhode Island's jobless tell different story about 'recovery'

Rhode Island's unemployment rate, 12.9 percent in the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, is the third highest in the country due to the steady erosion of its manufacturing industries, which account for one in eight jobs, and a wave of layoffs and mergers in the health care sector. Only Nevada, at 13 percent, and Michigan, at 14.6 percent, are in worse shape.

...an exasperating hunt for jobs that don't seem to exist anymore...