11:18 AM Mon, Dec 17, 2007 | Permalink
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter  Email this author | Email this entry |
This just in from the Economic Policy Institute, a national research organization: Once again, Rhode Island is near the top in New England in a dubious-distinction category — the percentage of manufacturing jobs lost between March 2001 and October 2007.
Rhode Island bled 19,600 manufacturing jobs during that period, or 4.1 percent. New Hampshire, which lost 4.3 percent of its manufacturing jobs during the same period, was the only New England state with a higher percentage of loss.
The totals for the other New England states: Maine, down 3.1 percent; Massachusetts, 3.2 percent; Connecticut, 2.5 percent, and Vermont, 3.7 percent.
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