State: Connecticut employers added 2,600 new jobs in January
Warehouse jobs and other employment in the category of trade, transportation and utilities posted the…
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Connecticut pauses small business program overwhelmed by requests and doubles aid to $50 million
Connecticut economic development officials, inundated by requests for financial help by small businesses shut by…
Justice Department backs UTC-Raytheon merger, but requires divestitures to promote competition
The two companies announced the deal last June, touting it as a sensible union between…
Q & A: What are Connecticut worker rights, responsibilities in the COVID-19 pandemic?
A: “If you really peel apart the law, if someone is just anxious about all…
Hanging Hills Brewing closes Hartford tasting room permanently amid coronavirus outbreak
Hanging Hills Brewing business partners Joe Ploof, a former teacher, and Brian Cox, a West…
Aetna waives patient payments for coronavirus hospital stays
For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and…
CEO of Connecticut-based Kaman cuts his pay 20 percent as the coronavirus pummels the aerospace business
CEO Neal J. Keating on Tuesday cited the virus “and its potential impact on the…
Connecticut seeing ‘unprecedented’ number of unemployment claims with processing backed up three weeks
The state lost about 120,000 jobs during the Great Recession, which spanned March 2008 to…
Connecticut lagged the US in personal income growth in 2019. And that was before the economic damage from coronavirus.
Personal income in Connecticut was up a weak 3.2% last year, the federal government reported….
When working from home isn’t a choice: Manufacturers, construction companies, warehouses and prisons among the employers operating despite coronavirus
Jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney, among the largest manufacturers in Connecticut, has imposed travel…
Aetna parent CVS Health to hire 50,000 workers amid COVID-19 outbreak
Pharmacist Evelyn Kim, wears a mask and gloves at the CVS pharmacy at Target in…
Questions about unemployment? Here are some answers on filing in Connecticut during the coronavirus pandemic.
Unemployment is soaring as the coronavirus spreads, prompting state government to shut businesses such as…
Concerned about a ‘fiscal free-fall,’ Connecticut restaurants urge Gov. Lamont for assistance; unemployment claim total rises to 99,000
“Currently many restaurants are continuing to operate because they are trying to keep people employed,…
Firearm, ammunition sales increase sharply in Connecticut during coronavirus outbreak
“We’re in uncertain times, and people are concerned about their safety,” said Mark Olivia, a…
United Airlines warns of massive layoffs without ‘sufficient’ federal aid
So far, no major U.S. airline has announced layoffs because of the COVID-19 outbreak, although…
Car Talk: Chasing down an intermittent nonstarter
We know that tire pressure drops about one pound-per-square-inch (PSI) for every 10 degrees the…
$21.5M Albany and Woodland Place project featuring urgent care center, dining and affordable housing heads to Hartford council for approval
A site map shows the redevelopment plan for a vacant corner lot at Albany Avenue…
Bike and electric scooter share programs headed for Hartford region, one year after Lime bikes exit
The Capitol Region Council of Governments approved the overarching agreement in recent weeks to allow…
Gov. Ned Lamont proposes $55M investment in Hartford’s XL Center arena
The upper half of the arena would contain more general admission, but to further cut…
Hartford has some of the youngest entrepreneurs in the nation, a new study says
The city with the youngest entrepreneurs is New Orleans, where business founders have an average…
Macy’s to close 125 stores — about 1 in 5 — and cut 2,000 corporate jobs as it flees ailing ‘lower-tier’ malls
West Dundee’s Spring Hill Mall is losing both Macy’s and Sears. Once that store closes,…
These Simsbury teens are spending their weekends preparing taxes
Hartford, CT – 2/2/20 – Ethel Walker School students Kyleigh Holt, right, and Sarah You,…
How chaos at chain pharmacies is putting patients at risk
In September, Stefanie Davis, 31, got the right medicine, Adderall, but the wrong dose. She…
Connecticut firms back away from China as fear of coronavirus grows
Passengers arrive at Heathrow Airport in London after the last British Airways flight from China…