Jobs For Connecticut Now

Although Massachusetts’s unemployment rate remains 1.6 percentage points below the national rate of 9.2 percent, the rate has remained steady since May. Massachusetts has added about 50,000 jobs since last June, according to the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, including 26,600 since March. Read More.

Third-party ticket exchange TicketNetwork will receive nearly $8 million in government loans and incentives under Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy’s “First Five” job creation initiative, an effort to help keep growing businesses in the state and improve private sector employment. Read More.

Third-party ticket exchange TicketNetwork will receive nearly $8 million in government loans and incentives under Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy’s “First Five” job creation initiative, an effort to help keep growing businesses in the state and improve private sector employment. Read More.

The CEOs of three small companies in Rhode Island and Massachusetts who live in Barrington share more than a hometown. They share caution when it comes to jobs for their companies. Read More.

Massachusetts added 10,400 jobs in June and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 7.6 percent, said the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development on Thursday. According to the state, preliminary job estimates for June show a total of 3,235,100 jobs in Massachusetts, an uptick of 10,400 jobs. Of those jobs, 10,300 were added in the private sector. Read More.

Governor Dannel P. Malloy, right and Catherine Smith, Commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development, left, meet with local and business leaders in Torrington on Tuesday during their jobs tour. Read More.

Governor Dannel P. Malloy, right and Catherine Smith, Commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development, left, meet with local and business leaders in Torrington on Tuesday during their jobs tour. Read More.

Fairfield County businesswomen gave Gov. Dannel Malloy advice Wednesday morning on how to create more jobs in Connecticut. Stamford dentist Tatiana Barton suggested starting a dental technicians program at the University of Connecticut. “They have an employment rate of 100 percent nationwide,” Barton said. She added that dentists now send patients out of state to get work done by technicians. Read More.

With the announcement that Cigna is moving its corporate headquarters to Bloomfield under the state’s ‘First Five’ initiative, Gov. Dannel Malloy lit off a rocket sure to catch the attention of the nation’s business community. Here is an insurance giant that had chosen not to have its headquarters in the ‘insurance capital’ changing course and saying to the world Connecticut is indeed open for business.