Employers in the U.S. – including Connecticut - report improved hiring plans for Q4 following the ten year low reported in Q3 according to the ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey of more than 8,700 U.S. employers. Connecticut employers plan to hire at a slower pace with an Employment Outlook of 6%.
Read MoreGovernor Ned Lamont and Connecticut Paid Leave Authority have announced the launch of a new website – CTPaidLeave.org – with the goal of supporting all Connecticut residents to understand their roles, rights, and responsibilities based on Connecticut’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Act (PFMLA), described as the most comprehensive in the nation.
Read MoreA study just-published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Neurology demonstrates for the first time the feasibility of a Guilford company’s industry-changing portable low-field magnetic resonance image (MRI) device at the bedside, rather than a conventional imaging suite, in critical care settings.
Read MoreOne of the bright spots in an otherwise unsettling summer for a few dozen Connecticut 6th -12th grade girls was the time spent participating in a virtual marketing competition known as Camp Erio. The focus was on deeloping a business idea or product that must work to solve the problem and/or improve the lives of people being negatively effected by this problem. The results: impressive.
Read MoreWhich states were the best states in which to work during the initial months of COVID-19, as restrictions closed in on workplaces, schools and communities across the country? It turns out that Connecticut ranked 5th best in the nation, according to a new analysis by Oxfam, “The Tattered Safety Net.”
Read MoreHousatonic and Norwalk Community Colleges, two of Connecticut’s 12 community colleges, are collaborating to respond to Connecticut’s workforce needs in healthcare-related fields, in the midst of the current unprecedented training and education environment.
Read MoreThe National Inventors Hall of Fame has been honoring the spirit of innovation and promoting inventors as role models since 1973. During those 47 years, 17 inventors with Connecticut connections have been inducted. Some are household names, others less so.
Read MoreThe Connecticut Science Center has named Carmen Cid, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Eastern Connecticut State University, recipient of its 2020 STEM Achievement Award. The 2020 Petit Family Foundation Women in Science Leadership Award will go to Jacquelynn Garofano, the Margaret Ingels Engineering Development Program Manager at Raytheon Technologies.
Read MoreThe Governor's Innovation Fellowship (GIF), administered by StamfordNext and supported by CTNext, has announced the first cohort of fellows for the program, scheduled to begin this month. Sixteen companies in Stamford will be providing positions for 18 recent college graduates, urged to “Become the next generation of great leaders in Connecticut.”
Read MoreThree dozen Connecticut companies are featured in the 2020 edition of the Inc. 5,000 – the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in America, compiled by Inc. magazine and issued this month.
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