job growth

Connecticut's job growth has stalled amid high costs of living, despite rising demand and a minimum wage increase to $16.35. A living wage remains nearly $25 an hour.

Connecticut’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.4% in August, according to the latest job report released by the state Department of Labor.

Connecticut should expand its public-private workforce development programs to meet the state’s growing need for skilled workers, according to Blake Moret, the CEO of a global technology company.

Connecticut and New York will lag behind western states in job growth in 2014. That’s according to a report by the Pew Center for Charitable Trusts…