{"id":58038,"date":"2016-02-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-economist-says-r-i-ends-year-on-bittersweet-note\/"},"modified":"2016-02-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T00:00:00","slug":"uri-economist-says-r-i-ends-year-on-bittersweet-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/uri-economist-says-r-i-ends-year-on-bittersweet-note\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 economist says R.I. ends year on bittersweet note"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\t<b>December Current Conditions Index drops to 58<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHAT: \tThe Current Conditions Index dropped to 58 in December, a sharp decline from November\u2019s Index of 75. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t too hard to see what December would bring for Rhode Island\u2019s economy; like the nation, Rhode Island slowed a bit further, as weakness in the our goods-producing sector continued,\u201d said 溏心vlog免费B站 Economics Professor Leonard Lardaro. \u201cIronically, most people here continue to think that our state\u2019s growth rate is accelerating, based on an inappropriately focused view that the unemployment rate tells us all we need to know about our state\u2019s rate of growth.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHO: \t溏心vlog免费B站 Professor of Economics Leonard Lardaro, creator and author of the Current Conditions Index. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHEN: \tTuesday, Feb. 16, 2016<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nHOW: \tUse attached information, including summary and charts prepared by Lardaro for news reports. He is available for broadcast and print interviews. The new information and other historical information can also be found on Lardaro\u2019s web site at http:\/\/www.llardaro.com\/current.htm. Lardaro will be blogging about the new labor data during the coming weeks. You can find his discussion and charts at http:\/\/rieconomy.blogspot.com. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nFOR INFORMATION: \tLeonard Lardaro, office, 401-874-4128, home, 401-783-9563<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nDave Lavallee, 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Communications and Marketing, 401-874-5862.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBACKGROUND: \tThe Current Conditions Index, created by Lardaro, measures the strength of the present economic climate in Rhode Island by following the behavior of 12 indicators. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December Current Conditions Index drops to 58 &#13; WHAT: The Current Conditions Index dropped to 58 in December, a sharp decline from November\u2019s Index of 75. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t too hard to see what December would bring for Rhode Island\u2019s economy; like the nation, Rhode Island slowed a bit further, as weakness in the our goods-producing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}