- September 1, 2017
- Connecticut Voices for Children
- Ray Noonan
Children do well when families do well, and families do well in part when the economy provides jobs with fair wages and good benefits. Yet since the Great Recession, the share of well-paying jobs in Connecticut has shrunk, and the state’s lagging economic recovery has left many—including youth, black workers, and the less educated—behind. In many cases, disparities between the most disadvantaged workers and the rest have increased.
In this report, we evaluate the state’s economy through three measures: labor force, jobs, and wages.