Misery Index: State Lost 100 Jobs in First Month of New Year. Revised December Numbers Down 4,600.

A delayed report on job January jobs creation brought more evidence that the state’s economic recovery has stalled. Connecticut lost a net 100 jobs in January compared to December. That left the state down 127,000 jobs from January 2020. December jobs numbers were revised downward, with the state losing a jarring 4,600 more jobs lost.

The January numbers are 7,000 jobs loser than the October report–when the state appeared to be recovering from last spring’s pandemic economic devastation.

Connecticut’s job creation peaked in 2008 with 1.729 million jobs, far from the 1.57 million reported in January.