Jobs For Connecticut Now

This week Jobs for New England Now posted three new blogs. The first, Traveling With Tech, lists the top airports for tech travel this holiday season. The second, Decline in Unemployment Rates, sheds a glimmer of hope on the Massachusetts economy . The third, Broadband Technology Is Bringing Back Jobs, discusses the positive economic benefit s of broadband technology.

Below is a brief list of news articles we posted this week:

Braintree Patch: New State Employment Numbers Show Positive Movement for Braintree – Braintree saw its unemployment rate decline from October to November, from 6.8 percent to 6.2 percent, a sign that hiring is on the rise in certain sectors of the economy on the South Shore and also continuing to improve overall.

Worcester Business Journal: Worcester Area Unemployment Falls – The greater Worcester area’s unemployment rate fell sharply from 7.3 percent to 6.8 percent in November as more than 600 people found jobs and the labor force shrank by nearly 1,000. The rate has fallen from 8.6 percent over the past year, according to the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.

Connecticut Mirror: Unemployment drops to 8.4 percent, but that’s not the whole story – The state announced today that the unemployment rate dropped three-tenths of a point to 8.4 percent in November, the lowest it’s been since June 2009. But behind that simple, oft-quoted statistic is a complicated calculation, based on surveys. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s office issued a cautiously optimistic statement that pronounced the number “encouraging,” yet acknowledged “more needs to be done” to promote job growth.

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Just in time for the Holidays, Massachusetts’ residents’ days have brightened with news that the unemployment rate fell from 6.8 percent to 6.4 percent in November. In Marlborough, residents learned also learned that not only did the unemployment rate drop to 7.0 percent, the lowest it has been since December 2008, but that the income tax rate will be lowered. Additionally, in Worcester, the jobless rate fell from 7.3 percent to 6.8 percent and in Taunton the rate is now 7.5 percent, down from 9.1 percent.

In these tough economic times, having a job and saving money is a big issue for families and individuals – especially this close to the holiday season with gift giving a source of spending and headaches for those feeling the economic crunch. With news of Massachusetts businesses adding 5,000 new jobs in the month of November, hopefully some families are experiencing the holiday in higher spirits than those of previous years.

While this does show signs of a slightly recovering economy, it points to the fact that there is still room for improvement. Many in our communities and towns across the state and region remain unemployed, and we need to work to encourage policies that support small business growth and employment opportunities.

There’s no denying that the lagging economy has been a big obstacle for that past several years. The government has tried many things to help motivate innovation and growth, but it seems that these attempts have had minimal success. However, there appears to be hope in one private industry, which has been bringing jobs and infrastructure back to the U.S.

A recent MFR Tech article Bringing It Back Home: The Resurgence of U.S. Manufacturing, says that the U.S. is still “a hotbed of expertise and innovation as well as one of the biggest technology markets for enterprise and consumers in the world.” Mobile and broadband technologies continue to expand and innovate at exponential speeds. It is this expansion and innovation that has been a major factor in creating growth and opportunities for our stagnant economy.

The article goes on to say that “…many of the best new companies in the telecommunications industry have come from the U.S., in large part due to the combination of engineering innovation and manufacturing capabilities available right here on our own doorstep,” and that, “Silicon Valley is possibly at its most innovative today, and this is nowhere more evident than in mobile broadband data.”

Although we had lost some ground to Europe in past years, the article says that, “that trend has reversed itself in recent years,” and we are quickly regaining our clout in the expanding “tech world”. If we are interested in fostering economic growth and recovering from these last few sluggish years,  it is essential that we focus on the innovative and profitable tech industry.