R.I. Small Business Update
The Rhode Island Commerce Corporation recently held a conference exploring Rhode Island’s Opportunity Zones and their potential benefit for the Ocean State. There were more than 200 attendees,...
Minority markets see economic growth
Selig Center’s Multicultural Economy Report shows minority groups have a combined buying power of $3.9 trillion Every racial and ethnic minority group in America is making financial gains...
Elorza Drops Plan to Sell Water Supply, Offers No Plan to Resolve $2B in Unfunded Liabilities
NEW: Elorza Drops Plan to Sell Water Supply, Offers No Plan to Resolve $2B in Unfunded Liabilities Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza has abandoned his plan to sell or lease the Providence Water Supply...
State-Mandated Citywide Real Estate Property Revaluation Complete
Vision Government Solutions, Inc. to use sales and market data to update real estate property values citywide PROVIDENCE R.I. – The City of Providence today announced that the state-mandated full...
Diossa Lobbied for ICE to Bring Prisoners to Wyatt, Prison of Death and Financial Chaos
Diossa Lobbied for ICE to Bring Prisoners to Wyatt, Prison of Death and Financial Chaos In 2015, Central Falls Mayor James Diossa lobbied the Rhode Island congressional delegation to work to bring...
Support The 6.5% Sales Tax Promise
Support The 6.5% Sales Tax Promise The families of the Ocean State deserve a better policy culture, and keeping promises is a good place to start. Existing state law (General Law...
Mayor Elorza and Uber Announce Expansion of JUMP Dockless Electric Bike Share in Providence
Expansion will more than triple the size of the service area to cover all of Providence and add more than 700 new e-bikes PROVIDENCE R.I.- Today, Mayor Jorge O. Elorza and Uber announced that...
Is Providence Back as a Foodie Mecca?
Is Providence Back as a Foodie Mecca? In the 1980s and 1990s, Providence emerged on the national stage as a hotbed of great restaurants and cooking Read More. PawSox Schedule “Ladies...
NY-Based Gotham Greens Unveils $12.5 Million Urban Greenhouse Farm in Providence
NY-Based Gotham Greens Unveils $12.5 Million Urban Greenhouse Farm in Providence New York-based Gotham Greens joined Governor Gina Raimondo and elected officials on Thursday to preview its Read...
Jobs & Opportunity Index (47th in JOI): Employment and Jobs Turn Down
Employment and Jobs Turn Down Providence, RI – The only changes in the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity’s Jobs & Opportunity Index (JOI) report for February came from the...
The Governor’s New Taxes
Corporate Medicaid Tax Businesses should be applauded for hiring those most in need of work…not punished with more taxes, and certainly not made out to be the bad guy. It is misguided to...
Center’s Testimony Against Minimum Wage Hike Bills
Written Testimony by Mike Stenhouse Opposing “Minimum Wage” Hikes Would further degrade an already weak Ocean State Jobs Market Providence, RI – The CEO of the RI Center for...
5 THINGS TO WATCH FOR THE NEXT ECONOMIC RECESSION
by GARYVEE @garyvee No one knows the exact day, but I can tell you this for sure: The economy is going to collapse. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next year, but we’re not going to live...
Boston among likeliest cities to lead world in technology in the next few years
Boston among likeliest cities to lead world in technology in the next few years: Report Annual industry survey from KPMG sees Boston tied for ninth with Austin By Tom Acitelli Boston is the ninth...
250 New Jobs at Quonset
R.I. Monthly Highlights Quonset Business Park Quonset Business Park was featured in a 10-page spread in Rhode Island Monthly’s February edition. The article showcases “the secret life of...
Legislation Pulls the Trigger on Sales Tax Cut to 6.5%
Bill Re-Defines Trigger to Statutorily Cut the State Sales Tax Already Pulled? Providence, RI — Suffering from a slate of retail store closings and far fewer in-state jobs than the government...
Money In Your Pocket
The 6.5% Sales Tax Promise Existing state law (General Law 44-18-18) specifies a “trigger” for a sales tax rate reduction to 6.5% (from its current level of 7.0%!) if certain...
Proliferation of Chain Stores on Thayer St. — The Death of Locally Owned Retail?
Proliferation of Chain Stores on Thayer St. — The Death of Locally Owned Retail? Thayer Street on Providence’s East Side used to be predominately dominated by an eclectic collection of local Read...
New HUD budget proposes massive cuts to affordable housing programs
In a proposal that’s anything but populist, the administration would strip vital funding for vulnerable residents of both urban and rural communities. ALAN PYKE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S...
Legally Required Sales Tax Cut Heads Center’s Legislative Agenda, as Counter to Progressives’ ‘Economic Justice Platform’
THE HALF-PERCENT PROMISE Center Calls for Statutorily-Required Sales Tax Cut Full Agenda in Stark Contrast to “Women’s Economic Justice Platform” Providence, RI — With Rhode...