PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — The impending closure of one of Rhode Island’s five career centers for the unemployed will create further hardships in some of the communities hardest hit by the state’s persistently high jobless rate, activists and users of the center said Wednesday.
About two dozen people gathered outside the netWORKri center on Main Street in Pawtucket to call on the state Department of Labor and Training to find funding to keep the facility open beyond Thursday.
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