Connecticut Labor Markets

While the nation's economy fell into its worst recession in at least 25 years, only 12 states saw their own total economic output fall last year, a new report shows. Connecticut was one of those states. Connecticut's output, the total value of goods...

Yale University junior Zach Marks was sitting in a college dining hall shaking his head at his friend. The two students had started out discussing how each of their preferred candidates could beat whomever the Republicans nominated. But within minutes,...

      WITH THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE ON THE RISE, FIRST TIME JOB SEEKERS ARE SEARCHING FOR ANY EDGE THEY CAN GET...THAT WAS GOAL OF A JOB FAIR YESTERDAY AT EASTERN CONNECTICUT UNIVERSITY.       40 EMPLOYERS IN THE EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES FIELD SET...

Connecticut continued its run of big job losses in March as employers shed 7,100 positions, but the unemployment rate ticked up less than expected, to 7.5 percent from 7.4 percent in February, according to a report released Thursday by the state...

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In an encouraging tone, loaded with visions of good-salaried possibilities, Wayne Hopkins talked to job seeker after job seeker on a recent chilly winter morning in Allentown. From his post as sales manager for a thriving insurance company, Hopkins looks...

The only way to survive the recession is to keep your job; employers are making tough choices that don't always relate to how much money someone is making. But, if the boss does have to fire someone, here are some ways to make sure it isn't you. With...

      HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell unveiled a two-year, $38.4 billion budget Wednesday that avoids tax increases but cuts hundreds of state jobs and numerous commissions and agencies to help cover the states's growing deficit.     ...

MICHIGAN - With the highest unemployment rate in the nation, Michigan is looking to the film industry as an option to help turn things around.  New film tax incentives are already yielding results statewide.  38 movies and documentaries were shot in...

The nation's employers might be slowing down the pace of mass layoffs, according to a report released Wednesday by Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. No clear trend is yet emerging in Connecticut, government data show. Last month, U.S. employers said...

New reports released Thursday show that Connecticut has now lost more jobs in this recession than in the previous one, in 2000-2003, and that job losses will continue to increase for at least another year. While some parts of the economy are showing...

After a decade in which the minority population of Hartford's suburbs doubled, the region remains one of the most segregated in the nation for Latinos, according to the Census Bureau's most extensive study ever of residential segregation. Blacks in...