by | Dec 28, 2010 1:08 pm | Comments (11)
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For more than two decades Ruth Dixon prepared court orders and warrants for judges. Now she’s been looking for work — for two and a half years.
Continue reading ‘Looking for Work. And Looking. And Looking ...’
by | Nov 18, 2010 10:35 am | Comments (6)
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Jacques McAdams’s solo business selling LPs to DJs began to tank a year ago. That’s why in the run-up to Thanksgiving he was again visiting the food pantry of the Jewish Family Service on Whalley Avenue in Westville.
by | May 20, 2010 12:10 pm | Comments (20)
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Theano Mihalakos scoops a favorite Clark’s flavor: Moose tracks.
Hillary Clinton and Toni Harp have milkshake runs to remember. Rosa DeLauro? She recalls campaign strategy sessions — and the burnt toast.
by | Apr 20, 2010 7:19 am | Comments (12)
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Looking to the business community to help city kids find jobs, the aldermanic Black and Hispanic Caucus put forth a “DIY” proposal Monday meant to help young entrepreneurs.
by | Mar 12, 2010 1:01 pm | Comments (0)
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Bill Coderre and his colleagues went to work at Sargent’s this week. So did supermarket workers across town. They weren’t sure that would happen.
by | Feb 17, 2010 1:00 pm | Comments (31)
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For 14 months now, Elias White has been looking for a job. Two city officials are pushing two different ideas about how to get thousands of recession-hit people like him back to work.
by | Feb 15, 2010 5:56 pm | Comments (74)
Jesse Hameen II stopped by Shaw’s supermarket on Whalley Avenue to pick up some groceries. Six weeks from now, he may have to trek out to the suburbs to get his apple cider, zucchini, and tofu “ice-cream” bars.
by | Feb 3, 2010 1:49 pm | Comments (8)
Yale’s endowment is starting to recover. But New Haven’s largest employer still needs to undertake a new round of budget cuts, including a freeze on officers’ and deans’ salaries, university President Rick Levin announced Wednesday.
by | Dec 4, 2009 9:07 am | Comments (4)
Last year these elves spent Christmas in a shelter. This year after their ride on Mister Moose, Serenity and baby Johaun Dawson will be returning to their very own apartment.
Continue reading ‘Tree Lighting Lifts Spirits Amid Down Economy’
by | Oct 26, 2009 8:20 am | Comments (22)
Lateef doesn’t know what to tell friends at school who ask where he lives. Mom said to tell them he lives with his aunt. But he can’t invite them over.
by | Oct 15, 2009 9:01 am | Comments (1)
Lulu Bland recently got laid off from her factory job. On another recession Wednesday, she went shopping for a new job — and a new career — at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Across town, John L., an unemployed restaurant worker, was shopping for $2 shirts and pants.
by | Sep 3, 2009 1:11 pm | Comments (6)
In Florida, a mortgage giant went bust. In Fair Haven, a $4,800 penalty is falling on either a check-cashing outfit or two booted tenants.
by | Jun 12, 2009 9:39 am | Comments (4)
John Padilla has put together a map for people having trouble finding their way to a job during the recession.
by | Jun 1, 2009 11:57 am | Comments (3)
Another ribbon was cut, while down the avenue, the after-church crowd filled the restaurant booths. It sure didn’t feel like a recession on Whalley.
by | May 27, 2009 2:23 pm | Comments (12)
Have you noticed that New Haven suddenly looks a lot different?
by | May 26, 2009 7:41 am | Comments (3)
A downtown coffee shop has found a way to lure customers like Felicity Moller during hard times.
by | Apr 23, 2009 8:43 am | Comments (12)
Those friendly downtown “ambassadors” are about to be outsourced.
by | Mar 18, 2009 4:40 pm | Comments (3)
Long Wharf Theatre postponed its audition for an architect — slowing progress toward a new home that’s a centerpiece of New Haven’s downtown plans.
by | Mar 17, 2009 12:30 pm | Comments (6)
(Updated 5:42 p.m.) Anger over corporate wallet-stuffing in hard times could spill over into bankruptcy court as a judge hears objections to paying $1.7 million in “shutdown bonuses” and other executive rewards at the New Haven Register‘s parent company.
by | Mar 5, 2009 10:53 am | Comments (2)
A high-powered New Haven-based law firm has laid off 14 attorneys, as the recession deals another blow to the legal industry.
by | Feb 23, 2009 4:24 pm | Comments (35)
(Updated) State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal plans to intervene in the Journal Register Co.‘s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case to try to block bonuses planned for executives in return for shutting down newspapers and laying off more employees.
by | Feb 12, 2009 11:37 am | Comments (8)
In hard times, report card night doubled as coat night at Fair Haven Middle School.
by | Jan 28, 2009 9:32 am | Comments (26)
The coffee was always robust. The economy was not.
by | Jan 27, 2009 11:01 am | Comments (4)
In a meeting with laid-off workers, a businessman proposed a last-minute plan to save a shuttered century-old printing company from “cremation.”
Continue reading ‘White Knight Proposes Lehman Bros. Rescue’
by | Jan 16, 2009 8:03 am | Comments (2)
Standing on the same spot where his relatives launched the Lehman Brothers 100 years ago, David Perkins raised his hand before a bankruptcy trustee and shared details of the company’s downfall.