The Canadians Feel Our Pain

I only know Rhode Island from the Farrelly brothers movies. They are famous native sons.

This article from The Globe and Mail highlights Rhode Island's manufacturing problems:

...more than 11 per cent of its work force is jobless, the worst anywhere in a
state that rivals economically battered Michigan for the highest unemployment
rate in the country.

...few feel the pain quite like Rhode Island, a southern neighbour to Massachusetts that lost its manufacturing base in the 1960s and 1970s and is struggling to find a new economic engine.
The state reported a record 53,000 people out of work in October and its unemployment rate of 9.3 per cent tied with Michigan, home of the devastated auto industry, for the highest rate in the country.