This is regional, and it's appropriate that governors in different regions would respond to what's going on in their regional labor market. But if you look nationally, wages aren't going up, people are still telling us the number one reason they're not going back to work is fear due to the virus. And more people were looking for work last month than the month before.

Gina Raimondo

Gina Marie Raimondo (; born May 17, 1971) is an American politician and venture capitalist serving, since 2015, as the 75th governor of Rhode Island. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first woman to serve as governor of Rhode Island. Before her election, she served as general treasurer of Rhode Island from 2011 to 2015 and was the second woman to hold the office. She was selected as the Democratic candidate for Rhode Island's governorship in the 2014 election. Raimondo won the election on November 4, 2014, with 41% of the vote, in a three-way race, against the mayor of Cranston, Republican Allan Fung, and businessman Robert Healey.Raimondo was elected to serve as the vice chair of the Democratic Governors Association for the 2018 election cycle. She was subsequently elected as chair of the Democratic Governors Association, and was only the second woman to serve in that position. Raimondo ran for and won reelection to a second term in 2018, and becoming the first candidate to secure a majority of votes for that office since 2006.

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