Though the unemployment rate (3.6%) is the lowest since February 2002, and only slightly higher than the national average (3.5%), the Connecticut labor shortage is described in the report as the “greatest threat to the state’s economic prospects.”
Rebecca L. Watts
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Bridging the digital divide to assure access to opportunity
It has been estimated that 24 million Americans lack access to broadband internet because of insufficient availability or high cost. Research from The Third Way has shown that communities that are majority Black are significantly less likely to have broadband access than communities which are majority white. The ramifications for people in these communities are intensified in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.