Connecticut was on pace to achieve a strong economic recovery by the end of 2013–until both national and state economies sputtered during the first half of 2011, according to the latest quarterly analysis released Friday by the University of Connecticut. The failure of federal stimulus grants to spur economic expansion, coupled with subsequent government spending […]

Tropical Storm Irene destroyed or significantly damaged 132 homes in Connecticut in the judgment of federal damage assessment teams, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Thursday. But the state still is awaiting a federal disaster declaration that would provide assistance, such as expedited Small Business Administration loans. New Jersey and New York have received disaster declarations. […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy named the head of the state Board of Accountancy, David L. Guay, on Thursday to serve as the first executive administrator of Connecticut’s new unified watchdog agency. Guay, a South Windsor resident and executive director of the accountancy board since 1989, was one of three finalists recommended in late July by […]

While Connecticut lost over 119,000 jobs during the Great Recession, its impact was not borne evenly as young workers and ethnic minorities suffered disproportionately high unemployment rates, according to a new labor report issued Thursday by a New Haven-based public policy research group. Connecticut Voices for Children also found long-term unemployment is particularly high, particularly […]

Federal health reform is supposed to give nearly all Americans access to health insurance by 2014, but for many without employer-sponsored insurance, the options until then are getting more costly. As of today, federal subsidies to help laid-off workers keep their health insurance have expired for nearly all recipients. The subsidies, which were available for […]

On a rainy and humid morning, when much of the state was prepping for a hurricane, about 130 activists filled a small auditorium at the Polish National Home in Hartford to get a peek at what progressive politics might look like in Connecticut in 2012. The annual meeting of the Working Families Party, an offshoot […]

WASHINGTON–Medicare officials in Washington are trying to woo doctors and hospitals to participate in a strategic new pilot program they hope will save money, improve care, and become a model for the future. The week-old project has already sparked intense debate among Connecticut health care providers, although few are rushing their applications to Washington just […]

Non-whites and Hispanics accounted for almost all the population growth in the country’s 100 largest metro areas between 2000 and 2010, a new Brookings report says, and 22 of those regions–including 10 in California–now have “majority minority” populations. Hispanic populations more than doubled in 29 of the 100 large metro areas, according to the report, […]