Connecticut saw a 1,600 decrease in “nonfarm industry” positions in December, while November private sector gains (3,300) were revised down to only 300, according to the latest report issued by the state Department of Labor […]
Economy
Eviction cases in Hartford and Bridgeport have remained far below historical averages since the Supreme Court overturned the federal eviction moratorium, according to an analysis by Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Researchers found that in […]
A survey of 900 chief executive officers 700 executives in the United States and globally found that labor shortages and inflation are their top two concerns in 2022, according to a new report by The […]
Reports from both lawmakers and real estate agents indicated that during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 and 2021, scores of wealthy New Yorkers fled the city and bought up homes in Connecticut, but numbers from […]
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that inflation in 2021 had hit 6.8 percent, a rate not seen since 1982, but, according to some economists, the reality may be much worse and that could […]
Connecticut’s first Chief Manufacturing Officer Colin Cooper announced that he is leaving the position after two years on the job. Cooper addressed his departure during a meeting of the Manufacturing Innovation Fund advisory board. Cooper […]
Complete recording of Yankee Institute’s A View to ’22 virtual forum on Connecticut and the national economy with Donald Klepper Smith, Dr Fred Carstensen and Curtis Dubay moderated by Ken Girardin and Marc Fitch . […]
Senate Republican Leader Kevin Kelly, R-Stratford, called on Sen. Richard Blumenthal to urge Democrats in the Connecticut General Assembly to reject the Transportation and Climate Initiative, which would increase the price of gasoline by forcing […]
With the passage of President Biden’s infrastructure package, Connecticut will see a projected $5.6 billion come to the state to support bridge and highway construction, railroads and broadband extension, among other projects. That could mean […]
Connecticut borrowed over $700 million from the federal government to bolster its underfunded Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund after the forced closure of businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic put hundreds of thousands of people out of […]
