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Danbury, New Haven labor markets post slight job losses

The job market in Connecticut is in the summer doldrums according to the latest report from the state Labor Department.  Research Director Andy Condon says June was a quiet month with just 500 new jobs added while the unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 8.1 percent.  Though he says the trend is a bit brighter.

 

Four of the six major Connecticut Labor Market Areas recorded job gains in June.  One of the two with losses was the Danbury area.  At -.2 the numbers were just slightly down.  The other was the New Haven area at -.9 which state labor officials called statistically significant.

 

Condon says a longer school year due to two storms earlier this year disrupted hiring and may influence summer hiring patterns.  He says the storms likely inflated local government jobs data.  He says the rainy June put construction work on hold hurting employment.

 

Connecticut has recovered fewer than half of the jobs lost in the recession from March 2008 to February 2010.

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