The blithe fairy – whoever he or she is -- that projects job figures in Connecticut is an incorrigible eupeptic. The state Department of Labor has retrospectively downgraded projected job growth figures for both 2014 and 2015, and many are the politicians in Connecticut who are pretending to be shocked, SHOCKED, at the new and more accurate figures. In 2015, jobs in Connecticut increased by a slender 11,600, not the 22,600 projected by the figure’s fairy at a time when Governor Dannel Malloy and the Democrat dominated General Assembly were putting together their budget. The Department of Labor also has retrospectively downgraded the projected job figures for 2014. Accurate job figures are important because the projected revenue from such data is used in balancing budgets. The new figures confirm what others have long suspected : that Connecticut is still mired in a business slowdown, years after the overwhelming majority of states have recovered jobs lost during “The...
go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you;
may your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
--Samuel Adams