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The 2015 Competitiveness Report Card was the fourth that the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity has released. For this edition, in addition to researching new data sources and compiling all of the updated data, Justin added an interactive functionality to the back-end spreadsheet allowing a report card to be generated for any state in comparison with any five other states.
Providence Journal Commentary
State government makes Rhode Islanders’ lives less fulfilling
Rhode Island is stealing our opportunity to fulfill our potential and be self-sufficient. We’re becoming increasingly dependent on subsidies from government, jobs remain scarce, and the state’s latest programs are designed to make things worse.
Here’s one indicator of increasing dependency: From January 2007 to January 2010, the state added over 60,000 residents to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP; “food stamps”). Over the next three years, nearly 50,000 more joined, bringing the total to nearly 181,000.
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