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Connecticut added 3,300 jobs in August, marking the state’s eighth consecutive month of job growth as its gradual bounceback from the COVID-19 recession continues.
According to the state Department of Labor, the latest employment gains — which dropped Connecticut’s official jobless rate to 7.2% — came mainly from the leisure, hospitality, professional services and manufacturing sectors, which together added 4,500 positions last month. Financial services, construction, trade, transportation and utilities registered slightly more modest growth.
The government, education and health industries, meanwhile, lost positions, bringing the net jobs gain to 3,300.
Labor officials also said July’s figures had been revised up from 9,400 new jobs to 11,100 new jobs.
In a statement, Patrick Flaherty, director of the Labor Department’s Office of Research, contrasted the economic downturn prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic with the Great Recession of the late 2000s, noting that the state appears to be bouncing back faster this time around. There are also more opportunities available for workers, Flaherty said, pointing out that many people are quitting their jobs in search of something better, which did not happen on a large scale in the years immediately following 2008.
Connecticut has now recovered 201,400, or 69%, of the 292,400 jobs it lost during the lockdowns of March and April 2020, according to labor officials.
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