PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 15 -- The Economic Progress Institute issued the following news release: The Economic Progress Institute (EPI), Common Cause Rhode Island, United Way of Rhode Island, and members of the Equity Impact Campaign joined legislative sponsors and champions urging the establishment of equity impact statements in the 2025 session of the Rhode Island General Assembly Equity impact statements are tools, like fiscal notes, which use data to measure how legislation could aff  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 [Category: Business] -- The National Federation of Independent Business issued the following news release: * * * NFIB Reaction to Governor Dan McKee's 2025 State of... PROVIDENCE, RI (Jan. 14, 2025) - The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the nation's leading small business advocacy association, issued the following statement by NFIB Rhode Island State Director Christopher Carlozzi in response to Governor Dan McKee's 2025 State of the State Address this e  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (TNSres) -- The Violence Policy Center issued the following news release: * * * Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, New Mexico, and Alaska Have Highest Gun Death Rates in the Nation Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Hawaii Have Lowest Gun Death Rates in the Nation * * * New data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that states with the highest rates of overall gun death in the nation are those with weak gun violence pre  more