No only has Connecticut failed to create net new jobs, the overall quality of jobs in the economy has steadily deteriorated, with high-skill, high?wage jobs shrinking, replaced broadly with low-skill, low-wage jobs. Large employers often play a critical role; such firms, based or operating in...

By using dynamic regression analysis and BLS data starting from 1990, CCEA was able to determine that 7,103 private sector job-years may be lost (and attributable to) Hurricane Sandy, between November 2012 and December 2014, of which roughly half or 3,551 job losses, can be expected within small...