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Governor Chafee addressing a much smaller crowd at Bryant University in 2012. (photo by Bob Plain)

Many Unemployed, Fewer DLT Equals Big Problems

By Jonathan Jacobs on July 14, 2012

So Governor Chafee has justified the reduction in key staff of the Unemployment Insurance and Workforce Development sectors of the Department of Labor & Training by saying that our economy is improving sufficiently enough to justify the layoffs. In a June 7th interview with WPRO, the Governor stated: “Well, the DLT is the opposite of [...]

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