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  Conn. legislature mulls worker retirement access

  By Stephen Singer  |  May 8, 2013

  Two committees have approved a measure establishing a trust fund to administer retirement plans for workers who would automatically be enrolled unless they opt out.

• Shrinking labor force a trend across New England

  By Stephen Singer  |  February 4, 2013

  Sometime last summer, Andrew Beck says he stopped looking for work, stymied as he got nowhere in his job search.

• Mass. treasurer reviews pension fund gun holdings

  By Stephen Singer  |  December 19, 2012

  Massachusetts Treasurer Steve Grossman has directed the state pension fund to review any investments in gun, ammunition and other companies in response to the killings last week of 20 children and six adults in a Connecticut elementary school.

• Bristol mulls extra pension cash to lure business

  By Stephen Singer  |  September 10, 2012

  Bristol's pension plan is so flush with cash it's considering investing a few hundred thousand dollars in companies to boost economic development.

• Connecticut expanding small business jobs program

  By Stephen Singer  |  June 14, 2012

  Connecticut is expanding a $100 million small business jobs program as economic development officials say more than 700 companies are seeking assistance to hold on to jobs and hire more workers.

• Connecticut to help jobless cope with benefits loss

  By Stephen Singer  |  May 17, 2012

  Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration announced Thursday that it has organized an outreach effort to help more than 12,000 long-term jobless workers receive an array of social services after losing extended unemployment insurance benefits.

• CEO arrest a setback for Connecticut jobs program

  By Stephen Singer  |  March 1, 2012

  The arrest of a Connecticut CEO accused of hurling a racial insult at an Oscars party has dealt a setback to the signature economic development program of the governor, who was counting on the man's company to help attract business to the state.

• Connecticut wants to be insurance capital again

  By Stephen Singer  |  February 20, 2012

  Hartford is trying to recapture its status as the nation's insurance capital by drawing in a specialized insurance business that is finding a home elsewhere.

• Conn. fines companies over workers' comp payments

  By Stephen Singer  |  August 17, 2011

  Connecticut labor officials announced Wednesday that work has been halted at a half-dozen construction sites over allegations that companies are misclassifying employees as independent contractors to avoid workers' compensation and other payments.

• Conn. court: Town may not seek pension money Madoff lost

  By Stephen Singer  |  August 10, 2011

  The Connecticut Appellate Court ruled Wednesday that the town of Fairfield may not make claims for millions in losses to its pension fund due to disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's fraud scheme.