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Article: RI unemployment rate is at 10.3 percent and rising
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- March 3, 2009
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Harold Shippee and his co-workers had one big question after learning in October that the metal plant where they worked for a quarter-century would close as it struggled with a tanking economy.
"Now what do we do?" said Shippee, who supports a wife and daughter in Warwick, just south of Providence.
The question vexing Shippee has worried thousands of other Rhode Islanders as the unemployment rate rose to 10.3 percent in January, the highest in more than 30 years and far exceeding the national unemployment rate of 7.6 percent, according to figures the state government released Tuesday.
Rhode Island, whose unemployment rate had stood at 9.4 percent a month ...