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Two more state-ranking lists are out and the picture is interesting.
Two Connecticut metros, Hartford and Bridgeport-Stamford, are in the Top Ten small cities for college graduates to start their careers, according to CreditDonkey, the financial education site aimed at millennials.
That contrasts with the sixth annual “Rich States, Poor States” [...]
Shareholder activists including state Treasurer Denise L. Nappier, who tried to force JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon to give up his chairman post, will have to be satisfied with a moral victory. Their bid fell short Tuesday at the company’s annual meeting.
Nappier, fiduciary of the $26 billion pension and trust funds, was [...]
State Treasurer Denise L. Nappier is ramping up her shareholder activism, joining critics of Caterpillar Inc. who are pushing the mining and construction equipment giant to exit Sudan.
Using the power of the state’s $26 billion retirement fund, Nappier on Wednesday threw her support behind a shareholder resolution calling on Caterpillar to make sure its [...]
Who’s the highest paid public employee in every state? Yes, it’s the coach in most cases, as a new graphic produced by Deadspin.com shows. Connecticut is the only state where the highest paid employee coaches a women’s team — UConn’s Geno Auriemma, of course. He took the top spot after Jim Calhoun retired last [...]
The CEOs at 11 large pharmaceutical companies have made a staggering $1.57 billion over the last decade as their companies have gouged the public, a policy group charges, in a release aimed at fomenting anger at the companies.
Health Care for America Now, a Washington, DC group that favors universal medical coverage under [...]
The message was clear Thursday as Connecticut’s five representatives in the U.S. House gathered in Hartford to talk about economic matters.
We need to invest. We need to spend.
Whether it’s high-speed rail, advanced airline navigation systems, basic research, Head Start programs for kids, maintaining military bases, Obamacare or the Connecticut River dikes, the [...]
Nearly a year after the start of Sunday alcoholic beverage sales, higher retail sales volumes are holding up for beer, wine and liquor, the state Department of Revenue Services said Thursday. That does not mean everyone is happy, as Courant Capitol Bureau Chief Chris Keating reported earlier this year.
From July through January, the [...]
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It’s nice that Congress managed to unclog the air routes by un-sequestering air traffic controllers at small airports such as Tweed in New Haven, but really, the gesture is less than public-spirited.
Former state Rep. Patrick J. Flaherty, [...]
Happy Tax Day! If you’ve already filed, you’re in the majority and you might be among the 34 percent of Americans who like or even love (5 percent) filing taxes, according to this Pew report.
Democrats are more likely to like filing than Republicans and low-income people favor the task more than those [...]
Labor unions might not be as thrilled with Obama this week as they usually are, as two areas of friction emerged ahead of the president’s visit to West Hartford.
The first is the gun control issue that’s attracting Obama to Connecticut in the first place. As it happens, the United Auto Workers union has 489 [...]
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