[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Sue Babin, RIDDC Special Projects Coordinator and chair of Shop RI, reported a big turnout for the 2022 Shop RI Small Business Saturday expo Nov. 26.

RIDDC Broadening Business Education Horizons

By: Rob Borkowski on January 6, 2024 in Business, RIDDC

WARWICK, RI — On Jan. 9, the Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council (RIDDC) begins its fifth year providing people with disabilities the resources to be self-reliant business owners and […]

[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] The Rhode Island State House is located at 82 Smith St. Providence.

McKee, DLT Unveil Employee Incentives for RI Businesses

By: Rob Borkowski on November 4, 2021 in Business

PROVIDENCE, RI — Gov. Dan McKee and the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training (DLT) are using $4.5 million in CARES Act funds to help businesses recruit employees lost […]

[CREDIT: Debbie Wood] Jason Wood, proprietor of We Be Jamming, at his shed/shop in Warwick on West Shore Road, with a wide selection of jams and spreads for sale.

RIDDC Helps ‘We Be Jammin’ Spread Success

By: Karena Garrity on August 6, 2020 in Business, Good Times, RIDDC

WARWICK, RI — Jason Wood, with the help of his mother Debbie Wood, started revolutionary jam business, We Be Jammin, which has grown in leaps and bounds making its way […]

The ACLU of RI is suing the RI Department of Labor seeking to have unemployment freezes without notice ruled unconstitutional.

DLT to Update, Mediate Unemployment Freezes

By: Rob Borkowski on June 4, 2020 in COVID-19, News to You

PROVIDENCE — The RI Department of Labor & Training agreed to update people with unemployment freezes during a hearing before U.S. District Judge William Smith about an ACLU of Rhode […]