PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Tiny Rhode Island, America's geographically smallest state and the first of the original colonies to declare independence from British rule, recently added another, less favorable distinction: It has the second-highest unemployment rate in the country. -
Tiny State, Huge Pain
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Tiny Rhode Island, America's geographically smallest state and the first of the original colonies to declare independence from British rule, recently added another, less favorable distinction: It has the second-highest unemployment rate in the country.-
By Keith B. Richburg