As Connecticut’s vaccine roll-out continues, restrictions on public gatherings are to be reduced later this month, and optimism that we may have turned the corner, on the COVID-19 pandemic grows, Connecticut hospitals appear to be taking the opportunity to remind residents that a full range of medical services are available at their facilities.
Read MoreHealth clubs and athletic facilities in Connecticut would be required to provide and maintain automatic external defibrillators if legislation now being considered at the State Capitol is approved this year.
Read MoreLaunched last summer in the midst of the pandemic, the nonprofit business development organization Catalyst for Connecticut began with a blunt assessment of it’s Fairfield County-centered region of focus, and now sees post-COVID opportunity for southwestern Connecticut.
Read MoreIn a typical year, the Women’s Business Development Council helps between 800 and 1,000 clients. Aswe all know, 2020 was anything but a typical year, and the numbers at WBDC bear that out.
Read MoreA proposal being considered this week by the state legislature is described by advocates as “an important step to close the gender wage gap in Connecticut.” If approved, the bill would “require employers to disclose salary ranges for vacant positions and provide comparable pay for comparable work,” updating Connecticut’s pay equity law.
Read MoreInfrastructure investment if one of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association’s leading legislative priorities for the 2021 state legislative session, highlighting the cost to businesses and residents of roads and bridges in poor condition or a half century old.
Read MoreA free, entirely volunteer-run, not-for-profit website in Connecticut is encouraging consumers to “shop Black” during Black History Month. The site, launched last summer, has experienced rapid seven-fold growth, and now lists nearly 1,300 Black-owned businesses from every county in Connecticut.
Read MoreDespite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce, women are still vastly underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce, the U.S. Census Bureau reported this week. An array of initiatives in Connecticut seek to close the gap.
Read MoreWhether recently released studies in the U.S. and Europe will provide sufficient reason to pause as Connecticut edges ever closer to legalizing recreational marijuana during the current session of the state legislature remains an open question.
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