Connecticut Labor Markets

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...

I took a walk early Wednesday morning. Azaleas and dogwoods were in bloom. Green-again trees and shrubs were damp, dripping from Tuesday's rain. A zillion birds were singing, and even the starlings sounded sweet. The Orioles had won another game. A...

New residential construction in Connecticut was the strongest in four years in 2012, with the most robust building activity reported in Fairfield County, a new report Thursday shows. Permits issued by all towns and cities last year for single-family...

It took entrepreneur Chris Farrell 10 years to go from a scribble on the back of a placemat to a product prototype with industry certification. And the Orange-based businessman's brainchild wouldn't have become a commercial reality without manufacturers...

The Connecticut Department of Labor has issued stop work orders against eight companies building a Trinity College dormitory on Crescent Street after those companies could not provide records proving they were paying into the worker's compensation system....

Connecticut companies added 2,600 jobs in March, with construction jobs the biggest contributor to growth. According to a report released Thursday by the state Department of Labor, employers hired 2,900 construction workers in March, and construction...

Clothing maker The Warnaco Group, recently acquired by New York City-based PVH Corp., is closing its operations at 470 Wheeler's Farms Road in Milford in early June and is laying off 208 people in the process. The layoffs are part of 1,000 that PVH is...

From coast to coast, politicians and pundits quickly grasped the irony when the shooting tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown landed Connecticut, the home and birthplace of the American firearms industry, at the center of a national...

The number of jobs in Connecticut fell by 5,700 in February, according to the monthly jobs report released Thursday, although the state's job level is still in positive territory for the year. The latest data from the state Department of Labor say...

The job picture may be brightening, particularly if you've only been out of work for a few months. Nationally, the share of the unemployed who have been out of work 15 weeks to six months is down to normal, pre-recession levels, and the proportion that...

For one reason or another, they were all failures: a recycling outfit in Killingworth; a Greenwich consulting firm; a personal information security company in Berlin; and a West Hartford restaurant. Their closings cost Connecticut at least 28 jobs. None...

A proposal to modestly increase Connecticut's minimum wage to $9.75 an hour by 2015 will provide vital income to the state's lowest-paid workers, all with a virtually negligible impact on businesses. Concerns that a wage increase would result in low-...