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CT Supreme Court To Hear Company Appeal Tuesday On Gay Employee Harassment

The Cool Justice Report

Enfield Machinist Was SubjectedTo Anti-Gay Slurs At Bloomfield FactoryHartford Atty. Jon Schoenhorn Had Won Jury VerdictThe Connecticut Supreme Court will be asked on Tuesday to decide a case of first impression whether state employers have a duty to p... »

PELTO: "State Budget Begins to Collapse; Pension "Savings" - Prime Example of Efforts to Mislead

My Left NutmegFront Page

Cross post from Jon Pelto's Wait What? For months, Governor Malloy and his administration have been assuring the media and the public that this year's budget was balanced and next year's budget included a hefty surplus that could be used for - among ot... »

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Urban Fabric

Urban Compass

In a brief 2010 paper titled “Losing Hartford: Transportation Policy and the Decline of an American City,” PhD candidate Christopher McCahill and UConn Associate Professor Norman Garrick assert that the city and state should both begin to charge their ... »

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Will the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) actually lead to a single-payer system?

My Left NutmegFront Page

This article by Rick Ungar suggests that it will happen sooner rather than later thanks to MLR (medical loss ratio). More Proof That The American For-Profit Health Insurance Model Is Doomed Recently, I published a piece arguing that the medical loss ra... »

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Strike Averted: Union Representing 2,000 Office Cleaners Reaches Agreement on New Contract

Hartford Courant Capitol Watch

The union representing 2,000 commercial office cleaners in the greater Hartford and New Haven areas has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract. »

Shaban, Wood, Camillo Hear Concerns from Beverage Industry

CT House Rules

State Rep. John Shaban today got a first-hand look at how well-intentioned government policy can negatively affect the ability of employers to thrive. Shaban toured the campus of Orange-based Dichello Distributors, which has the largest workforce of an... »

The Sinkhole State

Conn Commentary

In any tousle between business and government, business usually has the last word, and more often than not the word is, “We’re outta here.” Sikorsky Aircraft, a Connecticut company of long standing, has initiated two rounds of job cuts. Early in 2010, ... »

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Demand for home care workers soaring, but will there be enough takers?

CT Mirror Government

Arielle Levin Becker January 25, 2012 Dawn Luciano spends her weekends working as a personal care attendant, caring for seniors and people with disabilities in their homes. She'd like to spend her weekdays doing it, too. "Unf »

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