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.

Backers of a proposal to write collective bargaining rights for workers into the Michigan Constitution on Wednesday submitted more than twice the number of signatures needed to place it on the November ballot, setting up a fierce election-year clash between business and labor.

Forty-one percent of executives say social networking contributes to building and maintaining workplace culture, but only 21 percent of employees believe the same, according to a new Deloitte LLP survey conducted by Harris Interactive.