Jobs For Connecticut Now

An article from The Economic Times this today: A powerful American Senator has welcomed the C-17 aircraft deal announced by the Indian Air Force (IAF), a development which is expected to create more than 22,000 jobs in the United States. Read the story here.

From the New Haven Register this Saturday: After losing jobs since May, the nation gained 151,000 jobs last month, but the unemployment rate stayed at 9.6 percent, the U.S. Department of Labor reported Friday.

The gain in jobs beat Wall Street economists’ expectations. Contributing to the net gain of 151,000 jobs in October, private employers added 159,000 workers to their payrolls; that increase, however, was counteracted somewhat by losses in other sectors of the job market. Here is the full story.

From The Herald News this weekend: An economic development summit will be held Tuesday. It will include the leaders of local colleges, businesses, schools and associations, and is meant to detail critical sectors, model partnerships and industry needs within southeastern Massachusetts. To read the entire story, click here.

Boston Globe
Biogen Idec Inc., a Weston company known for its multiple sclerosis drugs, said it will reduce its workforce by 13 percent, or 650 jobs, as part of cost-cutting efforts that aim to to realize annual savings of $300 million.

Hartford Courant
At the end of “The Candidate,” election winner Robert Redford’s character turns to his political consultant and asks, “What do we do now?”

Hartford Courant
At the end of “The Candidate,” election winner Robert Redford’s character turns to his political consultant and asks, “What do we do now?”

From the Westfair Online this week: At a pair of recent candidate debates sponsored by the League of Women Voters in Fairfield and the Trumbull Chamber of Commerce in Trumbull, the office seekers all rallied around one key issue: jobs.
Sure, the candidates talked about other issues such as the state budget deficit, transportation and the environment, but they all agreed with each other that jobs must be created in Connecticut or the economy will remain in dire shape. Find the full story here.