CT job growth goes stagnant; business blames cost of living

CT job growth goes stagnant; business blames cost of living

Connecticut posted a job loss of 6,500 for the month May, and while half of it was attributed to Pratt & Whitney workers going on strike, it essentially wiped out an entire year’s worth of job gains leaving the state with only .1 percent more jobs than May of 2024, according to numbers from the Connecticut Department of Labor. While manufacturing saw the biggest one-month job losses, largely due to the strike which has since ended, other economi…