Archive for January, 2010

State: Toward A Better Business Climate

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

From today’s Hartford Courant:  There’s no excuse for Connecticut being at the bottom of any business list. It’s lovely, smart and prosperous. It’s in the top ranks in college graduates per capita, incomes and state spending on schools. It has world-class universities, Tony-winning theaters, sublime museums, bucolic beauty.

Yet in the past 20 years, according to the University of Connecticut’s Center for Economic Analysis, this state has seen “perhaps the poorest job creation among all 50 states.” CEOs surveyed by ChiefExecutive.net rated the cost of doing business here third worst of all states.

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Can the 66-Point Plan Guide Us To Prosperity?

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

From the Hartford Courant:  With an aging population, rising poverty and few prospects for job growth, how can Connecticut improve its chances for future prosperity?

State economic development officials have put together a 66-point plan they say should serve as a guide for policy-setting and decision-making.

Check out the full story here.