{"id":58558,"date":"2013-12-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-economist-says-state-maintains-positive-direction-at-start-of-4th-quarter\/"},"modified":"2013-12-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T00:00:00","slug":"uri-economist-says-state-maintains-positive-direction-at-start-of-4th-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2013\/12\/uri-economist-says-state-maintains-positive-direction-at-start-of-4th-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"URI economist says state maintains positive direction at start of 4th quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tWHAT: \tRhode Island began the fourth quarter by continuing its positive, though not exactly stunning, momentum. The Current Conditions Index rose from 67 (revised down) in September to 75 in October, as 9 of 12 indicators improved. Importantly several of those improvements were quite stunning.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHO: \tURI Professor of Economics Leonard Lardaro, creator and author of the Current Conditions Index. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHEN: \tFor release today, December 17 2013<\/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, URI Department of Communications and Marketing, 401-874-2116.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBACKGROUND: \tThe Current Conditions Index, created by Lardaro, measures the strength of the present economic climate in R.I. by following the behavior of 12 indicators. <\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT: Rhode Island began the fourth quarter by continuing its positive, though not exactly stunning, momentum. The Current Conditions Index rose from 67 (revised down) in September to 75 in October, as 9 of 12 indicators improved. Importantly several of those improvements were quite stunning. &#13; WHO: URI Professor of Economics Leonard Lardaro, creator and [&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-58558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58558","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=58558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}