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This hour, Governor Ned Lamont has signed a bill allowing recreational use of cannabis.We speak with Connecticut State Representative Robyn Porter about…

If you pay attention to the news, you’ve no doubt heard often in recent months something to the effect of, “Despite high unemployment numbers nationwide,…

Many people are reassessing how they view their work after a year of Covid. The pandemic magnified everything we don’t like about modern work - too many…

If William Shakespeare were writing Hamlet today, he might alter that work’s most famous line as follows: “To bringeth employees back to the office, or…

At least two nonprofit social service agencies that serve developmentally disabled people on behalf of the state began relocating hundreds of clients…

Sixty-year-old Conzuela Punto has been working at a McDonald’s rest stop in Connecticut for 18 years without benefits. “I’m supporting my colleagues who…

Connecticut's unemployment rate has hovered above 8 percent, more than double the rate pre- pandemic. But now that the job market is picking up, why are…

Nearly half of Connecticut’s more than 8,000 COVID-19 deaths have come in nursing homes since March 2020, so it’s little wonder that just over 4,900…

Thirty-three Connecticut nursing homes received notifications on Friday that their unionized workers are ready to strike on May 14 if demands aren’t met…

Latino workers have sued a manufacturer in Eastford, Connecticut, over alleged wage theft and racial discrimination. The complaint filed this week on…