5 charts you need to see on jobs and unemployment in Rhode Island

by Ted Nesi

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – More than a decade after the Great Recession, how are working Rhode Islanders doing?

A new report from the Economic Progress Institute, a local left-leaning think tank, seeks to shed some light on that question by offering a host of charts tracking employment and job trends in Rhode Island.

Here are five charts from the report, “The State of Working Rhode Island 2017,” that are worth seeing. (Note that most of the data is through 2016, not 2017.)

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