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About Me
Professor of Economics at the
University of Rhode Island
What's New
Monthly data on RI employment, fifty-state
comparisons of job growth, unemployment rates, labor force growth, and my
most recent newspaper articles
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The Current Conditions
Index
An
indicator I developed to assess the current state of the Rhode Island
economy. The CCI for each month is reported in detail. You can
also download this month's report.
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Jobless
Improvement Index
An
unemployment rate indicator I formulated to paint Rhode Island in a
positive light. This takes both the level and changes in the unemployment
rate into account. The JI Index is posted for each
month for all 50 states.
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How
Rhode Island Compares
Fifty-state
comparisons each month on payroll employment growth, unemployment rates, labor force
growth rates and my Jobless Improvement
Index
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The Current State of the RI Economy
PowerPoint
presentation of current economic conditions in Rhode Island.
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Newspaper Articles About the RI Economy
Articles about the Rhode Island
economy that I have published in The Providence Journal and the
Providence Business News.
Rhode Island's
Transition to a Service Economy
Graphs and
discussion of this major structural change that occurred in October of 1987.
Key Fiscal Concepts
PowerPoint presentation detailing basic concepts for use when analyzing Rhode
Island's (or any state's) fiscal performance
Recommended Sites
A series of sites, not just related to economics that I find
useful and interesting
Mind Boggling Graphs and
Tables
Insights
into Rhode Island's present recovery, many contrasting where we are now with
where we were in the 80s
Favorite Quotes
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