2014 Election: In their own Words: Acknowledging that there are a lot of intricately interconnected factors driving the economy and no silver bullet to fix it, what do you feel is the is the single biggest reason RI is slowly recovering/not recovering from the recession?
RI Governor Todd Giroux (D): I feel that we haven’t done enough to bring in the federal dollars, specifically the banking bailout money that was created by TARP. It provides provisions for small business loans, which could be our state commerce fund, additional provisions for statewide pension fund loss up to $1 billion. That’s written into […]
