Barbara Dalio

Mar 18, 2024 | hartfordbusiness.com | Barbara Dalio |Chris DiPentima |Andrew Ferguson

Connecticut finished 2023 with 94,000 job openings — about where we began the year and 27,000 more vacancies than in February 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic upended the world. Demand for workers continues to outstrip supply, with the state’s labor force — those working and those looking for work — declining by 14,300 people in 2023. Connecticut’s labor force is now down 37,900 people since February 2020, with employers citing the shortage of workers as the main factor impacting economic growth.

Mar 18, 2024 | hartfordbusiness.com | Barbara Dalio |Chris DiPentima |Andrew Ferguson

Connecticut finished 2023 with 94,000 job openings — about where we began the year and 27,000 more vacancies than in February 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic upended the world. Demand for workers continues to outstrip supply, with the state’s labor force — those working and those looking for work — declining by 14,300 people in 2023. Connecticut’s labor force is now down 37,900 people since February 2020, with employers citing the shortage of workers as the main factor impacting economic growth.

Nov 5, 2023 | ctpost.com | Barbara Dalio |Andrew Ferguson

Some 63,000 of these 119,000 young people are disconnected from education and employment, including:  44,000 young adults who have a high school diploma but no job or connection to postsecondary education; 7,000 who have a job, but no high school diploma or GED; and 12,000 who are experiencing severe disconnection because they are either incarcerated or they have dropped out of high school and are unemployed.

Oct 12, 2023 | courant.com | Barbara Dalio |Andrew Ferguson

Connecticut has an unspoken crisis – one that impacts every city and town — and it’s time it gets the attention it deserves. According to a new research report by Boston Consulting Group, in 2022 one in five of Connecticut’s young people were either at-risk or disconnected. These are 119,000 young people who have either dropped out of school or are in danger of dropping out of school, and who are, for those ages 18 to 26, unemployed, and in many cases unemployable.