{"id":65295,"date":"2010-01-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-professors-economic-index-shows-continuing-improvement-in-r-i\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T00:00:00","slug":"uri-professors-economic-index-shows-continuing-improvement-in-r-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/01\/uri-professors-economic-index-shows-continuing-improvement-in-r-i\/","title":{"rendered":"URI professor\u2019s economic index shows continuing improvement in R.I."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tWHAT: \tRhode Island\u2019s economy reached a milestone in November. While still mired in a recession, for two-and-half years at this point, the level of economic activity here improved again, this time moving to a neutral level, as the Current Conditions Index rose to 50. This is the highest value since Jan. 2008, when the Index was 8. Compared to Nov. 8, 2008 when the Index also stood at 8, six of the indicators improved. Not only did Rhode Island\u2019s economy fail to decline in November, the Index beat its year-earlier value for the seventh consecutive month.<\/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, Jan. 11, 2010<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nHOW: \tUse enclosed 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:\/\/members.cox.net\/lardaro\/current.htm.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nFOR <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nINFORMATION: \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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT: Rhode Island\u2019s economy reached a milestone in November. While still mired in a recession, for two-and-half years at this point, the level of economic activity here improved again, this time moving to a neutral level, as the Current Conditions Index rose to 50. This is the highest value since Jan. 2008, when the Index [&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-65295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65295","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=65295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}