In the state of Rhode Island, work sharing is a well-established part of the unemployment insurance system.
So the state of Rhode Island, with lead paint in 60% of its 415, 000 homes (the national average is 25%), changed tactics and brought a public nuisance case against Sherwin and two other past producers of lead-paint pigment.
The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Rhode Island and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by Hurricane Sandy during the period of October 26-31, 2012.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Signs Rhode Island Disaster Declaration
Today, China -- which is roughly the same size as the United States -- is almost one-quarter desert, and the desert is advancing at more than 1, 300 square miles, approximately the size of the state of Rhode Island, each year.
The Rhode Island affiliate of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has sued the state in Rhode Island Superior Court, saying the pension changes violated public workers' contract rights.
The FBI, the U.S. Attorney's office of the District of Rhode Island, the state attorney's office and the Rhode Island State Police have opened an investigation into the circumstances of all financial transactions at 38 Studios, according to Col.
Larsen B, a 1, 254-square-mile ice shelf, comparable in size to the U.S. state of Rhode Island, collapsed in 2002, the group said.
Mr Miller, a journalist on the Providence Journal-Bulletin in Hasbro's home state of Rhode Island, spent five years watching the firm at work.
Possible trial venues could be in the western part of the state, in Worcester or Springfield, or possibly out-of-state in neighboring Rhode Island or New Hampshire.
Leonard Lardaro, also of the University of Rhode Island, thinks the temporary clean-up jobs (3, 000 at Warwick Mall, for instance) and the remodelling and reconstruction needed in many Rhode Island homes may help the state out of the recession.
ECONOMIST: Things were bad enough in Rhode Island. Then the rains came
Christine Gregoire and Lincoln Chafee, governors of Washington state and Rhode Island, have asked the federal government to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I drug (like heroin, say) to a Schedule II drug (like morphine) so that doctors can at least prescribe it safely in certain circumstances.
In Rhode Island and Colorado, the law passed both houses of the state legislature and in 10 other states it has passed one house.
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In order to understand how things could have gone so wrong, I spoke with two prominent epidemiologists, who have both been investigators and advisors on the NCS: David Savitz of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and Nigel Paneth of Michigan State University in East Lansing.
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In Rhode Island, around 178, 000 customers lost power, or about one-third of the state.
DuPont, a chemicals company which also produces paint, managed to extricate itself from the Rhode Island case after a deal involving the payment of millions of dollars to charities approved by the state's attorney-general.
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