Teams from four Connecticut communities have been selected for Connecticut Main Street Center’s 2025 Main Street Accelerator Cohort. Over the course of the 6-month virtual program, the teams will learn and practice the nationally proven Four Point Approach to Main Street Management and apply it to a specific challenge their community is facing.
Read MoreThe headline atop the full-page ad most visibly in The Hartford Courant and Stamford Advocate this week were nearly impossible to miss. “Invested in Connecticut,” it read, going on to explain “It’s one think to do business in the U.S. It’s another to be invested in its future.
Read MoreConnecticut has the third highest percentage of households with rainy-day and emergency funds, just behind Hawaii and Delaware and just ahead of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, according to a new analysis by the financial website WalletHub.
Read MoreIdentifying and reaching potential candidates for job opportunities is a key priority and in Connecticut, Accenture turned to Connecticut’s United For ALICE Report to help shape local efforts.
Read MoreThe Greater Hartford Arts Council Board of Directors has selected Amanda Roy as the permanent Chief Executive Officer of the organization, effective immediately. She had been Interim CEO since last year, after many years with the organization.
Read MoreConnecticut State Comptroller Sean Scanlon has announced that the Town of Clinton Police Department is the first group to join the Municipal Employee Retirement System (MERS) since 2009, largely attributable to the ongoing improvements to the system made by his office.
Read MoreA new report found Connecticut is stagnating in improving child well-being. The state ranks eighth in the Annie E. Casey Kids Count Data Book for the second year in a row.
Read MoreA new survey found Connecticut residents are feeling the pinch of a state law passed last year, blocking earned wage access, services allowing workers early access to a portion of their wages before payday.
Read MoreSince its launch a decade ago, the Bye Bye Mattress program has meant over 1.7 million mattresses have been recycled in Connecticut, successfully diverting more than 30,000 tons of foam, fiber, steel, and wood from the state’s waste stream.
Read MoreThe economic impact to the State of Connecticut from its fourteen non-profit independent colleges and universities is $19.3 billion annually, according to a just-completed comprehensive study.
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