With power to be restored by midnight to all but a few hundred customers in Connecticut, officials said Monday the next phase of recovery from Tropical Storm Irene will be processing applications for the aid that comes with a federal disaster declaration. Federal Emergency Management Administration centers will be open in all eight counties by […]

WASHINGTON–Lawmakers in the Connecticut delegation say they don’t want President Barack Obama to launch the jobs debate this week with a small-bore, nibble-around-the-edges proposal. With the August jobs report showing zero growth, unemployment stuck at 9.1 percent, and economists fearing a double-dip recession, Democrats like Rep. John Larson say the moment calls for big and […]

Fifty-five percent of Americans think labor unions should have as much or more influence in the future as they do now, but an equal proportion say they don’t expect that will happen, according to a new Gallup poll. The share of people saying they expect organized labor’s influence to decline is up from 46 percent […]

Kevin Rennie’s had fun tweaking U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3rd District, for being on vacation in Italy during Irene’s rude visit to her shoreline district. Weathering the storm at the Hotel Poseidon on the Amalfi Coast did present comic opportunities that were hard to overlook. Now, Rosa’s back, hectoring the utilities, seeking help from the […]

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the state’s largest health insurer and a favorite target of advocates for more stringent regulation of rate increases, is seeking to raise premiums by 12.9 percent next year for more than 45,000 individual-market customers, including some whose plans were the subject of a controversial request that got denied last […]

While talk of a double-dip recession arose again Friday amid gloomy national job numbers, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration remained optimistic new union concessions will keep labor costs affordable–even though the package lacks an out-clause to cope with fiscal emergencies. The lack of any such provision, coupled with a four-year prohibition against layoffs for most […]

Valerie Horsley and her fellow researchers at Yale University were looking at the role fat cells play in the skin, part of a broader examination into how tissues maintain themselves, when their work took them in a totally unexpected direction: Now they’re looking at a potential treatment for baldness. “I was really surprised that this […]

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 […]