Brett Smiley, chief of staff for Governor Gina Raimondo, joins Political Roundtable to discuss the troubled rollout of the state’s new $364 million system for social service benefits; the Raimondo administration’s efforts to raise the skills of workers; and a foul word used in a tweet about Donald Trump.

One of the state’s top political reporters, Ian Donnis joined The Public’s Radio in 2009. Ian has reported on Rhode Island politics since 1999, arriving in the state just two weeks before the FBI...