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Free Event Tonight: CT Mirror Tour – Generation For Hire/20 somethings in the Connecticut workforce

This event is free and open to the public. Connecticut produces thousands of college graduates every year, but does the emerging economic order require the skills they actually possess?  What are Connecticut’s employers, educators, and economic development leaders doing to retain a generation of students who entered college at the beginning of the recession — […]

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Shutdown, Learning to read, UConn Health Center and Newtown

My Canadian cousin called last weekend just after the debt ceiling crisis had shoved the shutdown crisis out of the spotlight. “Who is running your country?” he asked. Who knew? This partisan brawl was unrecognizable to me, a bizarre event in some unknown country. Even when the U.S. Supreme Court anointed George W. Bush in 2000, it was my country going through an odd paroxysm.