The General Assembly is revisiting whether to grant workers’ compensation coverage for certain first responders suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, such as those who responded to the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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Connecticut Senate Republicans unveil urban agenda
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State Senate Republicans want to set aside up to $5 million from the state’s $250 million small business program to help provide micro-loans to urban entrepreneurs, saying Thursday that more jobs are needed to help Connecticut’s struggling cities.
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How short-term viral hits can transform a small business
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Pennsylvania businesses might be split over Wolf's tax plan
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Gov. Tom Wolf’s budget proposal is giving Pennsylvania business owners and executives a lot to think about.
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Coke CEO gets $18.1M after company fails to meet targets
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Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent was given a pay package worth $18.1 million last year after the world’s biggest beverage company failed to meet its own growth targets.
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Unions lobby for minimum wage hike, against right to work
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About 200 union workers packed the halls of the Statehouse on Thursday to lobby lawmakers to support measures to boost the minimum wage and reject efforts to make Maine a right-to-work state this year.
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Applications for US unemployment benefits fall sharply
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The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits fell sharply last week, a sign that strong hiring will likely continue.
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Labor friction shadows potential NFL stadium in LA suburbs
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Friction between organized labor and the developers of a potential NFL stadium in the Los Angeles suburbs threatened Thursday to tangle up the project even before construction started.
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Spain: Board of bank taken over by regulator asks to resign
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The board of a Spanish bank catering to rich clients has asked permission from the country’s central bank to resign after its Andorran owner was accused by the U.S. of money laundering for clients from China, Russia and Venezuela.
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Major unions stepping up battle against free-trade pact
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The AFL-CIO union says it and its affiliated unions are freezing political contributions to federal candidates “until further notice” to channel funds into the labor’s intensifying battle to stop or at least help shape a proposed free-trade agreement being negotiated by the U.S. and other nations that border the Pacific Ocean.