Rhode Island in the Great Recession: factors contributing to its sharp downturn and slow recovery

Mary Burke

No 14-9, Current Policy Perspectives from Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Abstract: This paper seeks to discover why Rhode Island experienced a more severe downturn during the Great Recession than any other New England state and why it continues to lag other states in the region and the nation as a whole in some measures of labor market health.

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Pages: 63 pages
Date: 2014-12-01
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