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A Horrible Graph of Connecticut’s Lack of Job Growth

June 19, 2011
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A Horrible Graph of Connecticut’s Lack of Job Growth

Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary (BLS.gov) If you click on the graph to the right and expand or zoom in on Connecticut you can barely see a tiny bit of blue.  That blue represents job growth since the MAX jobs lost point during the 2007 Recession as of this past May 2011. ...
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Small Business Hiring Plans Turn Negative

June 7, 2011
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Small Business Hiring Plans Turn Negative

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) will release their April survey on Tuesday, June 14th. Here is a pre-release of the employment results from NFIB: NFIB Jobs Statement: On Main Street, Job Creation is Collapsing “After solid job gains early in the year, progress has slowed to a trickle … meaningful job creation...
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America Has Lost It’s Technology Dominance, 64 Reasons

December 13, 2010
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Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5 http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12999.html Executive Summary A Few Factoids Thirty years ago, ten percent of California’s general fund went to higher education and three percent to prisons. Today, nearly eleven percent goes to prisons and eight percent to higher education.1 China is now second in the world...
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To Hell With The Bibb!

August 8, 2010
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To Hell With The Bibb!

The attack ads Fedele is running bring you back decades ago to a failed Southern Textile Company on it’s last legs. But let’s talk about present day Connecticut, after all that is what this race is about, today and tomorrow in Connecticut. Fedele has been part of, and a very quiet part of an...
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The Confusion of Pratt and Whitney and Cheshire Jobs

July 11, 2010
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The Confusion of Pratt and Whitney and Cheshire Jobs

The “victory” the union won by a Federal Appeals Judge is short lived at best. Yes, Pratt can not move the jobs in Cheshire and East Hartford out of state……….till………….December of this year. At best the union won a reprieve of 5 months. The union contract is up in November. And unless the union...
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