HR Scoop Archives for August of 2020

"Back to Work RI" Campaign Aims to Create Jobs Amid Pandemic

Published 08/10/2020

"Back to Work RI" Campaign Aims to Create Jobs Amid Pandemic   Gov. Gina Raimondo announced a new initiative aimed at helping Rhode Islanders get back to work. (patch Rhode Island)   With thousands of Rhode Islanders out of work amid the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Gina Raimondo announced a new, multi-million-dollar initiative focused on job creation.   As reported in Marketwatch... It took 10 years for the U.S. economy to create 23 million new jobs. It took the coronavirus pandemic just a month to destroy almost as many. The mind-boggling deluge of layoffs suggests the lost jobs nearly match all the employment gains since the end of the...