{"id":80399,"date":"2025-08-19T05:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T05:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/80399\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T05:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T05:12:08","slug":"cbia-response-to-july-2025-employment-report-cbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/80399\/","title":{"rendered":"CBIA Response to July 2025 Employment Report\u00a0 \u00bb CBIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state\u2019s largest business organization issued the following response to today\u2019s release of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.ctdol.state.ct.us\/lmi\/laborsit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">July 2025 employment report<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJuly\u2019s modest 700 job increase reflects Connecticut\u2019s long-term job growth challenges,\u201d said CBIA president and CEO Chris DiPentima.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pace of job growth continues to fall short of demand\u2014we have 77,000 job openings and employers continue to report that the labor shortage is their biggest challenge. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear that we\u2019re not seeing the population growth needed to address overall demand in Connecticut, with the labor force again declining in July.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile job openings are 9% above pre-pandemic levels, the labor force has only grown 1.2%, trailing most of the region and the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmployers continue to do their part, with average private sector weekly earnings increasing 4% in the last 12 months, ahead of the national rate and outpacing inflation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s imperative that policymakers recognize the challenges employers face and support policy solutions that make Connecticut more affordable for residents and businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs policymakers consider their priorities for the next legislative session\u2014they must focus on supporting the core of Connecticut\u2019s economy and lay the groundwork for long-term growth.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state\u2019s largest business organization issued the following response to today\u2019s release of the July 2025 employment report.\u00a0\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[45,49,48,5778,124,5779,5780],"class_list":{"0":"post-80399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-connecticut-economy","12":"tag-jobs","13":"tag-jobs-report","14":"tag-workforce"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}