Facts: One fifth of all jobs in the United States do not provide enough annual compensation to keep a family of four above the poverty level.
Facts: Over 500,000 Connecticut residents – with and without high school diplomas—lack the basic skills needed to secure productive employment and/or pursue higher education.
Facts: Forty percent of Connecticut adults lack adequate literacy skills to function effectively in the workplace.
Facts: In 2009 about 45% of Connecticut jobs were middle-skilled but only 37% of the state's workforce has the appropriate training.
Facts:Massachusetts has only twice Connecticut’s population, but spends 40 times more on incumbent worker training.
What We Are
The Campaign for a Working Connecticut is a coalition that promotes the state's economic competitiveness through the development of sustainable, effective workforce solutions to increase workers' skills and advance families to self-sufficiency.
What we say: 2012 Legislative Agenda
Updates
5.6.2012
Bill would cut college remedial classes
4.8.2012
Op-ed piece on the value of remedial classes for college students
4.4.2012
CT small business program yields 65 new jobs
4.1.2012
Capital Workforce Partners CEO Thomas Phillips talks about job training, skills alignment and CT's aging workforce.
3.19.2012
Rep. Ryan talks to incumbent workers at event sponsored by CWCT
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