RAMONA GIWARGIS San Jose: New law giving part-timers access to more hours begins Monday SAN JOSE — San Jose businesses with 36 or more employees must now offer extra shifts to part-time workers before hiring new staff, under a landmark…
PATRICIA DADDONA CT’s Walmart workers get bonuses amid push for higher wages Amidst growing pressure to pay employees higher wages, retail giant Walmart on Monday announced that its Connecticut workers are sharing in more than $1 million in cash bonuses,…
PATRICIA COHEN Profitable Companies, No Taxes: Here’s How They Did It Complaining that the United States has one of the world’s highest corporate tax levels, President Trump and congressional Republicans have repeatedly vowed to shrink it. Yet if the level…
Rosana Garcia Medicaid facing threats (again) in the Governor’s Budget When Governor Malloy released his budget for fiscal years 2017-2019, his proposals had cuts to health care and Medicaid/HUSKY. It’s no secret that the state budget has a deficit of…
Carrie Wells, Contact Reporter Baltimore City Council committee passes $15-an-hour minimum wage bill After five hours of testimony from residents roughly split on the issue, the Baltimore City Council’s labor committee voted to advance a bill to raise the city’s…
RON LIEBER 401(K)’S AND SIMILAR PLANS When Teachers Face the Task of Fixing Their Retirement Accounts When the Greenwich Alliance for Education held its annual trivia challenge last week, Carol Sutton worried a bit when the topic turned to finance….
Ken Byron and Vanessa de la Torre, Contact Reporters Canton School Officials Apologize For ‘Trump’ Chant Against Hartford Basketball Team Canton students and families have begun emailing Hartford’s Classical Magnet School to express their regrets and support after a group…
Tom Huddleston, Jr. Colorado Topped $1 Billion in Legal Marijuana Sales in 2016 It only took Colorado 10 months to pass $1 billion in legal cannabis sales in 2016, one year after the state came up just shy of that…
ALEXIA FERNÁNDEZ CAMPBELL Why Fewer Americans Outearn Their Parents There was a time when most Americans could expect their children to grow up and be better off than they were. As my colleague Alana Semuels notes, most baby boomers born…
The Hartford Courant | Mara Lee, Contact Reporter Connecticut Unemployment Drops to 4.7 Percent Connecticut’s unemployment rate dropped from 5.1 to 4.7 percent, which is statistically indistinguishable from the national unemployment rate of 4.6 percent. But the decline comes at…