Suzanne Bates is the policy director for the Yankee Institute for Public Policy. She lives in South Windsor with her family. Follow her on Twitter @suzebates.
Just when everyone was starting to express some cautious optimism about the job market in Connecticut, Gallup’s poll listing Connecticut in last place for job creation felt like a sucker punch to our collective guts.
The Gallup poll doesn’t measure how many jobs were created in a year, but rather is based on interviews with state residents about whether or not their workplace will be hiring in the next year. So, instead of past performance, it seems to indicate we are likely to see little job growth in the coming months.
Apparently, Connecticut is tied with Rhode Island for having the worst job creation scores since 2008, and they are the only two states that have been in the bottom 10 every year.
See the complete story at CT News Junkie.
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