WASHINGTON, June 11 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following article from the Economics Daily: In April, 377 metropolitan areas had over-the-year decreases in nonfarm payroll employment and 12 were essentially unchanged. The largest over-the-year percentage losses in employment occurred in Atlantic City-Hammonton, New Jersey (-32.9 percent), Norwich-New London-Westerly, Connecticut-Rhode Island (-27.4 percent), and Barnstable Town, Massachusetts (-25.0 p  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 13 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing $180,000 in supplemental funding the City of Pawtucket, Rhode Island's Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF). Pawtucket is among seven groups in New England selected to receive a total of $1.5 million in EPA funding. The supplemental EPA Brownfields funding announced this week are going to communities that have demonstrated succes  more