The Connecticut legislature is considering a proposal that would require businesses receiving financial assistance from the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) to make “good faith efforts to employ persons with autism spectrum disorder or intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Read MoreAs the economic ramifications of the ever-expanding shutdown of daily life across the state and across the country due to the spreading COVID-19 pandemic accelerate, public officials are increasingly discussing how to assist families, small businesses and major industries recover. Now, another sector of the economy, museums of all types (including history museums, art museums, zoos, aquaria, gardens, science centers, and historic sites) are reaching out for financial help.
Read MoreAfter weeks of shuttered businesses in downtown communities across the state due to government actions aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus across the state, a little noticed coalition launched at the start of this year’s legislative session may prove helpful in boosting the recovery of local businesses and municipalities.
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The U.S. Small Business Administration is now offering low-interest federal disaster loans for working capital to Connecticut small businesses suffering substantial economic injury as a result of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). The action came just days after a formal request by Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont.
Read MoreThe Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has launched a fund to rapidly deploy resources to support the residents who are most significantly affected by the coronavirus pandemic, and seeded it with $1 million.
Read MoreEven as Connecticut’s Governor closed all of the state’s schools, urged federal officials to provide disaster relief for small business owners and authorized the closure of state Motor Vehicles offices to slow the spread of coronavirus across the state, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stepped up its guidance to Americans.
Read MoreThe greatest epidemic in human history, the so-called Spanish flu of 1918, killed tens of millions of people worldwide .... An estimated 675,000 Americans perished, including some 9,000 men, women, and children in Connecticut—nearly 1% of the state’s population. ConnecticutHistory.org describes what occurred in Connecticut.
Read MoreMatthew Beaudoin, President & CEO of Mystic Knotwork in Mystic has been named the U.S. Small Business Administration’s 2020 Connecticut Small Business Person of the Year, SBA’s top award
Read MoreThe inaugural Connecticut Writing Festival, held last fall in Hartford, is among the winners of the 2020 edition of Best Writing Conferences in America, produced by the Writer magazine, based on a survey of its readers.
Read MoreMay 23, 2020. It’s an Olympic year once again, and if the coronavirus manages to stay out of the way, Hartford will serve as host for a precursor to the Olympic competition, as the United States prepares to determine who will make the U.S. team and represent the nation at the Tokyo Olympiad later this year.
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