Connecticut Labor Markets

It's been months, even years of everyone wondering when the economy will “get back to normal.” Now, after the 8000th terrible jobs report, many people are beginning to believe that the answer is “never.” Could this be the new...

Last week was the 47th anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court decision that established that restrictions on birth control violate the right to privacy. Normally this doesn't seem like a big anniversary, but this year, with all of the...

Connecticut wants to attract captive insurance companies, hoping the state's unrivaled labor market of people in the industry will work to its advantage -- along with a tax credit.     In October, the state legislature refined regulations and approved a...

Almost 30,000 Floridians on long-term unemployment will lose their extended benefits this weekend, as the “EB” program begins to expire. Across the country, more than 200,000 people will be affected, according to CNNMoney, which reports &#...

Connecticut’s private sector has recovered 44 percent of the jobs lost in the recession, though job losses in the public sector erased some of that progress. When Connecticut’s unemployment rate was 9.4 percent in October 2010, about 180,...

HARTFORD — Gov.Dannel P. Malloyopened the 2012 legislative session Wednesday with plans for education reform, pension funding changes and the largest increase in funding for affordable housing since Gov. William A. O'Neill was in office more than 20...

Good story in today's Courant by the very talented Mara Lee. She writes that the unemployment rate in Connecticut dropped to 8.2 percent, the lowest it's been since 2009. That's the good news. The bad news, if Lee's subject is any indication, is that...

Finally, a flicker of economic hope for President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats, even if it's a faint one. November's sharp drop in the unemployment rate shows that jobs are finally moving in the right direction and suggests the economy is on...

Lot of posturing going on these days. Governor Malloy is threatening to add a half percent to Connecticut's unemployment rate by laying off thousands and the Republicans in Washington are threatening to destroy the USA's credit and plunge the world into...