Connecticut Labor Markets

German television is different than television in the United States.  That is what I have gathered after visiting two German TV outlets, one public and one private. The largest difference is that public television gets about 50% of the viewership in...

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Maryland's largest gun manufacturer has decided not to leave the state just yet. Beretta USA threatened to abandon its home on the Potomac if Maryland passed a strict new gun-control law, but after the law was signed the company announced that its...

The state Senate voted Thursday night to raise the minimum wage - an issue that has been controversial through the years. The latest version calls for raising the wage by 75 cents per hour over two years with no index for inflation. As such, the wage...

By the end of the month, more than 30,000 people who are collecting Connecticut unemployment benefits will have their weekly checks cut by nearly 20 percent. Only people who have been collecting for more than 26 weeks will face the cuts, because weeks 27...

More than 150 high school seniors and community college students attended the "Ready for Hire" job fair at MxCC on May 17, and were given the chance to learn more about part-time and full-time job opportunities by local employers. The job fair was co-...

State Sen. Cathy Osten and State Reps. Toni Walker and Mae Flexer claim that Connecticut businesses could offset a nearly 20 percent hike in the minimum wage with a two-tenths of 1 percent price increase [May 19, op-ed, "Connecticut's Women Deserve...

Economists at the Federal Reserve ran a study to isolate how much the shrinking labor force has to do with demographic changes — fewer high school and college students working part-time jobs, and Baby Boomers reaching retirement age — and...

For nearly 6,900 students who graduated Sunday at colleges around the state, the natural question is: What's next? Happily, this year's graduates have more reason to be optimistic than those who graduated two or three years ago, although the market...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics summed up all the state jobs reports Friday, and it shows Connecticut was one of only nine states that added enough jobs in April that the agency's economists are confident the growth is more than just noise in the data....

The Energy Systems Sales and Training (ESST) division of IMTI, The Industrial Management and Training Institute, in partnership with Motech Industries, Inc. and Motech Inverters of Taiwan, will install a 45kw Solar Photovoltaic System on the roof of the...