CRANSTON, R.I. – Rhode Island businesses added 1,400 jobs in September as the state’s unemployment rate dropped to 2.6 percent. Over the year, jobs were down 3,500 from September 2022 and the unemployment rate was down eight-tenths of a percentage point. Through September, Rhode Island has recovered 96,600 or 89.2 percent of the 108,300 jobs lost during the Covid-19 shutdown.
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