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Murphy Sees. Murphy Clicks. Need Murphy Fix?

by Thomas MacMillan | Mar 19, 2012 8:10 am | Comments (1)

Looking to learn how to cultivate small businesses statewide, U.S. Senate candidate Chris Murphy stepped into a New Haven company that’s a greenhouse of budding new ventures and two other companies that keep adding workers—with no government help.

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Great Recession Meets Great Depression, Onstage

by Allan Appel | Feb 29, 2012 4:05 pm

Have to stay living with your parents long after college? Can’t find a job that pays enough to give you a real start in life while you quake in fear you’ll lose the crappy one you have? Who’s going to care for the ailing parents? Feel the economic deck is unjustly stacked against you and your family?

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99ers Line Up For Outsourced Custodial Jobs

by Melissa Bailey | Dec 21, 2011 9:03 am | Comments (31)

The jobs have no benefits, are part-time and pay less than union jobs they’re replacing. That didn’t stop 40 out-of-work New Haveners—some approaching the 100th-week cancellation of unemployment checks—from lining up for a chance to land one of 165 positions cleaning city schools.

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Recession Or Not, She Had A Bar To Open

by Allan Appel | Sep 26, 2011 8:40 am | Comments (33)

Of the reds, #124 has been the most popular so far. She herself enjoys a flight of whites consisting of #114, 115, and 117. The first is a Rioja with notes of leather, strawberry, vanilla, and, yes, cigar box. The last three are chardonnays from central California.

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Fair Haven Message To D.C.: “It’s About Jobs”

by Thomas MacMillan | Aug 9, 2011 8:01 am | Comments (16)

Alexandra Ferreira is about to join the 99ers club, people who have reached the end of their 99 weeks of government unemployment benefits. Joe Guerrera, a heavy equipment operator, can’t find consistent work and worries about putting his son through college. Mike Alberino, a steelworker, said free-trade agreements have eviscerated American manufacturing.

They gathered in a Fair Haven church to serve as human exhibits for a quest by labor leaders and their U.S. congresswoman to change the channel in the nation’s recession discussion: From the “Debt” Channel to the “Jobs” Channel.

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Auto-Parts Salvage Headed To The Hill

by Thomas MacMillan | Jul 21, 2011 1:06 pm | Comments (4)

In a sign of the recession-era times, old cars that once would have been simply scrapped are now being stripped to the bone first, to supply an increased demand for cheap replacement auto parts. One New Haven company is looking to cash in on the trend.

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Looking for Work. And Looking. And Looking ...

by Allan Appel | Dec 28, 2010 1:08 pm | Comments (11)

For more than two decades Ruth Dixon prepared court orders and warrants for judges. Now she’s been looking for work—for two and a half years.

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Hard Times Squeeze Food Pantry

by Allan Appel | Nov 18, 2010 10:35 am | Comments (6)

Jacques McAdams’s solo business selling LPs to DJs began to tank a year ago. That’s why in the run-up to Thanksgiving he was again visiting the food pantry of the Jewish Family Service on Whalley Avenue in Westville.

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Ode To Clark’s Dairy

by Paul Bass | May 20, 2010 12:10 pm | Comments (20)

Hillary Clinton and Toni Harp have milkshake runs to remember. Rosa DeLauro? She recalls campaign strategy sessions—and the burnt toast.

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Minority Caucus Pitches $1M Jobs Bill

by Melissa Bailey | Apr 20, 2010 7:19 am | Comments (12)

Looking to the business community to help city kids find jobs, the aldermanic Black and Hispanic Caucus put forth a “DIY” proposal Monday meant to help young entrepreneurs.

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