Unemployment Actually on Its Way up in Rhode Island
Once again, my monthly employment post for RIFreedom.org shows that Rhode Island’s unemployment rate would be going up right now without our loss of labor force. In fact, as the third chart shows, we’d have hit 8.3% unemployment in November if the labor force hadn’t changed since before the recession, which is the level that the official unemployment rate reported back in February/March 2014.
