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Bad News Abounds in Latest Labor Day Employment Report

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Friday, September 2, 2011   

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A new report highlights the state's continuing unemployment crisis, which includes a group with normally good job prospects

Connecticut Voices for Children has released its annual State of Working Connecticut report, this one focusing on the Great Recession of 2008-2010. Report author Orlando Rodriguez says recent college graduates as well as established workers suffered serious job losses, while African-Americans and Latinos fared the worst.

"College-educated workers are now also feeling the impact of the Great Recession. Half of unemployed college-educated workers have now been without work for at least half a year."

Among the long-term unemployed, he says women are having a harder time finding work than are men.

Unemployment for recent graduates of the state university system doubled between 2006 and 2010, from 5 to 10 percent, Rodriguez says. He notes that in 2010, Hispanics were twice as likely as whites and African-Americans three times as likely as whites to be unemployed in Connecticut, even as job loss among whites has increased.

"While the Great Recession has increased unemployment for whites - for everyone - it has dramatically increased unemployment for minorities, beyond what we've seen in the past."

The report urges Gov. Dannel Malloy and the General Assembly to address the recession-era loss of 80,000 jobs by investing more in education and training in all job sectors, improving the transportation infrastructure to connect with regional job centers and tackling the high cost of doing business in the state by reducing the cost of energy, housing and health care.

The report is online at ctkidslink.org.


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